I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a party or candidate I believe in. I don't mind going out and endorsing somebody I believe in. But when we're talking about my films, I don't think my politics should have anything to do with it.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

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