One Wants To Be Able To Experience

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.

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.

Obviously Its A Good Feeling To Know That Something You've Done Has Lasted.

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.

For Example, A Man Who Might Not Have Enormous Charisma, Who Could Be President 40 Years Ago, And Who Was A Deserving President, I Don't Know That George Washington Would Be A President Today, I Don't Know That Abe Lincoln Would, I Don't Know That Roosevelt Would.