I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious.

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman