I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.