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.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

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

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

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