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Ok, I Know This Is Going To Disgust You, Michael, But A Lot Of People Are In This Business To Make Money.

By That I Mean, I Think That It Is True That Politics And Political Heroes Have To Satisfy Our Need To Be Greater Than Mortal In Some Way, And That's Led Them Into Creating Illusions, Sound Bites, Focus Groups That Tell You What To Do.

Relationship Films Are Political. If A Woman Is Sitting In A Waiting Room In An Office And A Man Walks In And Sits Down, It's A Political Situation. If He Decides To Smoke, Does He Ask Her Or Does He Just Light Up? If He Lights Up, What Does She Do? It's Politics.

Most Human Beings Who Are Accustomed To Attempting To See The World From Various Points Of View Tend To Be More Liberal Than Conservative. I Have One Life. I Am A Certain Age. I'm Married To One Person. I Have A Certain Number Of Children. I Won't Have Another Life Other Than That, But I Do Have Many Lives Through The Films. It's A Way For Me To Understand What It's Like To Be A Murderer, To Confess, To Be A Beaten Wife, To Be A Minority, To Be A Victor, To Get The Girl, To Lose The Girl. I Can Do All Of That Through The Practice Of An Art Form.

I'm Trying To Be Morally Responsible And No More. I Don't Have An Agenda I'm Trying To Push. People Talk About Three Days Of The Condor As Being Anti-government But The Last Statement In That Movie Is The Cia Guy Saying To Robert Redford, "ask 'em When They're Running Out. Ask 'em When There's No Heat In Their Homes And They're Cold. Ask 'em When Their Engines Stop. Ask 'em When People Who Have Never Known Hunger Start Going Hungry. You Want To Know Something? They Won't Want Us To Ask 'em. They'll Just Want Us To Get It For 'em!"