In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.