It Must Be Good To Be In

All People Are Paradoxical. No One Is Easily Reducible, So I Like Characters Who Have Contradictory Impulses Or Shades Of Ambiguity. It's Fun, And It's Fun Because It's Hard.

When I Think Of My Background, If I Was Privileged On Any Level, It Was In Terms Of The Kind Of Exposure To Experience And Bohe-mian Cultural Influence That My Parents And My Uncles And My Grandfather Gave Me. On Both Sides I Come From An Extremely Eccentric, Artsy, Intellectually Intense, Activist Family.

If You Try To Make Interesting Films, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time. I Choose Just Not To Look At It That Way.

The Incentive For Business Is Not, And Cannot, Be Anything Other Than The Root Incentive For All Business: They Must Profit.

I Tend To Relate To A Character In Terms Of The Arc: What's Interesting Is Where He Starts Versus Where He Ends Up.