Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.