It's amazing that for seven minutes of film I spent seven months filming. I spent a lot of time going to meetings.

She gives them an emotional release. She gets the women in a circle, and of course the first thing they say is that they can't sing. But by the time it's over, some of them are pretty good singers.

At that time, if you appeared in a film made overseas you didn't get a SAG contract.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

You'll click a button and get to hear the Austin audience reacting to the film for the first time. You'll hear what took them by surprise, made them gasp. It's gonna be really cool.

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; . . . best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.