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.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

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

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

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.