A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

I don't limit myself.

I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that's great; I'm happy for that. But I've learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.