Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.

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.

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

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

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

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.