Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process..

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures..

Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to ge….

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative..

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I….

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over..

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

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges int….

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's ….

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself..

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

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liber….

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood..

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you ha….

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie..

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one….

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world..

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

Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has b….

I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push. People talk about Three Days of the Condor as being anti….

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