"In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to the..." — Robert Benton

My education was an education by movies.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.