When I Go To The Movies, I

Part Of It Has To Do With This Business Of Being Approached In Public. I Have A Distinctive Look - It's Partly The Glasses I Wear - And People Seem To Remember Me Once They've Seen Me.

Some People See Me As Dissecting My Characters In Some Kind Of Heartless, Coldblooded, Analytical Way, When In Truth Making These Movies Is A Passionate, Intensely Emotional Experience For Me. I'm Detached From The Characters Only To The Degree That I Have To Be In Order To Write Honestly About Them.

When I Go To The Movies, I Do Like To See Things That Surprise Me, A Little Bit, In Ways That Seem Truthful To The World That We Live In.

Compromise Is Part And Parcel Of Making A Movie. It's A Question Of The Kinds Of Compromises That You Have To Make.

And That's Just What I'm Saying. I Would Never Want To Be Like Certain People, Who Change The Way They Dress, Go Out In Disguise, Wear A Big Floppy Hat And Dark Shades. I Would Hate That.