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

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

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

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

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.

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

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.