Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

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

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

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

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.