I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen.

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

I think that man is conditioned to violence.

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

You can't think of nothing.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

Fear God. Love your neighbor. And shoot ducks.

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.