I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

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.