I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're saying something about that guy. A guy walks down the street and somebody's about to be run over and he shoves him out of his way and gets hit by the car himself, you're saying that guy's a hero. You can't avoid making certain statements.

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

There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

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

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