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.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

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

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a party or candidate I believe in. I don't mind going out and endorsing somebody I believe in. But when we're talking about my films, I don't think my politics should have anything to do with it.

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