I Don't Have A Social Agenda. I

Sometimes People Can't Afford To Work For You, Or They're Not Interested Or Available, And You Hate To Have Written The Whole Movie With Somebody In Mind And Not Get Them.

I Take More Jobs When I Need More Money, If I'm Investing In Films. I Take Fewer When I Don't. Or If Something Really Good Comes Along, I Usually Find A Way To Do A Good Job On It In The Time That I've Got.

My Argument Has Always Been That This Is Not An Anti-bush Film, It's A Pro-democracy Film. And If George W.bush Comes Out On The Wrong Side Of Democracy, That's His Problem.

I Don't Write [screenplay Character] Biographies Beforehand. I Usually Go In Knowing Some Sequences: This Is Where I Want To Start, This Is Where I Want To End.

There Were Not Fifteen People In The Story Department And Twenty-five Producers And Stuff. And Roger Had Produced 1,000 Movies And Directed A Couple Of Hundred, And Their Comments Were Always Very, Very Specific.