When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

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

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.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

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

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

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