It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie ….

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is,….

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry..

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privileg….

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent film….

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without questi….

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make so….

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition..

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherit….

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors..

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack..