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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.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.