Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.