With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

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

You are not an active creator of the film.

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.

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.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

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