It's Always Hard To Explain

It's Such A Funny Thing. Hollywood Is Terrible Unless You Happen To Be A Celebrity Who's A Republican. So Ronald Reagan Can Be A Hollywood Celebrity, And He's A Republican, And Then He Can Become The President, And That's Okay. Fred Thomson, Well, That's Okay. But The Rest We Need To Demonize. There's No Consistency.

All I Try To Do Is Create An Atmosphere That Seems Comfortable Enough, That It Removes Tension And Everyone Feels Free. If They Feel Free Then Behaviour Happens, Small Moments Happen And That's What Ultimately Works The Best For Me.

I Play Around With Human Things, Human Relationships And That, And Allow That Kind Of Talk To Work In That Way, On That Level.

Rain Man Certainly Didn't Test Really Well. If You Look At It Carefully, You Have A Disease Autism They Didn't Understand Back Then, They Didn't Know In The Test Audience Whether It's Okay To Laugh Or Not Laugh, Because It's A Film That's Done In A Way Where, "well, Maybe I'm Not Supposed To Laugh." At The End Of The Film, Dustin Hoffman Gets On The Train And Doesn't Even Acknowledge His Brother. Not Even A Glance, Nothing. That's Why The Studio Said, "can't You Just Have Him Look At Tom Cruise At The End Of The Film?"

I Think Certain Movies Work And That Is Part Of The Magic Of It All. We Can't Truly Define Why Something Succeeds.