The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.

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.

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!

There is a weak person because he is weak ... but there is a strong person who was once weak!

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint, ' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.