Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

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You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.

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We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

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I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

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I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

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Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

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But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

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And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

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The truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

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