On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Audiences are audiences.