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.

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

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

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

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.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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