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.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

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.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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.