I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

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

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

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

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