Burt Lancaster Was Largely Responsible For Me

I Mean, I Don't Know Anything Else That I Would Try To Do, But It's A Very Frustrating Thing To Do, Because You Are Trying To Take What's A Fantasy In Your Head And Make It Live Through The Minds Of 200 People.

I Love Having Made A Film And Watching It When It Affects Audiences In A Positive Way. It Was Always Fun For Me To Hide In The Back Of A Theater And Watch Tootsie With An Audience And Hear Them Laugh. And It's Gratifying 20 Years Later To Imagine That They Still Can Find It Amusing.

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 Just Call Them Bits Of Popular Culture, Whatever They Are, Sometimes Very Rarely By Accident A Movie Becomes A Work Of Art.

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 Liberalism Is Crazy.

The Essence Of Acting Is Seeing The World From Another Point Of View. That's What Acting Is.