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

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.

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

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.

You are not an active creator of the film.

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

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