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.

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

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.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

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.

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 mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.