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

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.