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

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

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.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

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

I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.