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

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

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

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

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

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

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