I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Somewhere someone else’s break-through is hinging on you simply knowing that you matter. So please, remind yourself of this truth every single day.

There will be moments in your life, when it seems you can no longer go on and you want to give up everything

Be kind. Only feelings of kindness can purify our ever judgemental minds.

Unity in faith is theocracy unity in politics is fascism.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?