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Most Human Beings Who Are Accustomed To Attempting To See The World From Various Points Of View Tend To Be More Liberal Than Conservative.

You Can Be Moderate In A Way And Still Intense In Your Views. It's The Extremism That Gets Frightening; Religious Fundamentalism And Wacko-left Liberalism Is Crazy.

I Make Films, And I Hope That People Come To See Them. If They Don't, I Pay A Big Price. But I Can't Make Decisions Where I Would Change My Own Standards Or My Own Taste In Order To Court The Public In Some Way.

Hollywood Was Set Up By A Bunch Of Businessmen. They Do Not See Their Job As Being Philanthropists. I Don't Think It's A Contradiction In Terms To Attempt To Be A Good Businessman And To Also Be Liberal.

Reading A Novel Of A Private Experience, Very, Very Different, The Nature Of It Is Very Different.