No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.

Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.

Nourish yourself every day with the wonderful things that life has to offer you. Nourish yourself in the present moment. Walk in the kingdom of God.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.

Costs merely register competing attractions.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.