I work with a lot of movie stars.

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.

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little pain.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.