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

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

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

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

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

Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.