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

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.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

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

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

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.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.