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.

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.

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.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.