Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

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

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

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

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.