I try to be an open book now as much as possible.
I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
I may be an optimist.
I was just glad to be going to work again.
I've never committed to a role without a script.
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.
From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.
If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.