I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

I believe that DVD is that which gives some hope to retaining some content in movies that will appeal to an older audience or the more sophisticated audience or the audience that doesn't need or desire to see a movie on a Friday night.