And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.