It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

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.

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

I am not God but something similar

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.