I Mean, Certainly It's The Single Biggest

Once I Start To Do A Film, It Has Inferences. If A Guy Walks Down A Street And Kicks A Dog, You're Saying Something About That Guy. A Guy Walks Down The Street And Somebody's About To Be Run Over And He Shoves Him Out Of His Way And Gets Hit By The Car Himself, You're Saying That Guy's A Hero. You Can't Avoid Making Certain Statements.

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 Been In Every Film I've Ever Done. It Had All The Ingredients Of The Kinds Of Films I Like To Do.

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 Do Have Many Lives Through The Films. It's 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 Get The Girl, To Lose The Girl. I Can Do All Of That Through The Practice Of An Art Form.

It's Always Interesting To Play People Different From Yourself, It Would Be Boring For Me To Play Myself.

There's A Religious Basis To Their [bush And Chaney] Kind Of Conservatism. It's Rooted In A Kind Of Fundamentalism. I'm Afraid Of That. I Don't Like That Idea. I Think All Extremism Is Suspect.