I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

Euro Disney is not my vibe. I can't really deal with Disney, man. It's not my thing.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.