I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

We had to punish this industry in such a way that everybody in this country and everybody in the world would recognize that they had paid a higher price than any other,

That country doesn't roll off the tongue when you talk of the hockey world.

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.