We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

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.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this

The way you look to the world, define the way you stand in the world. Change perspective, change the world

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.

When I was 4 or 5 and I could put complete thoughts together and really feel them, I remember watching the Grammy's or something like that and getting real emotional because I wanted to be up there.

I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.

John Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner!

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.