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I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.