When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

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.

In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

I am the girliest girl.

There is no small act of kindness.

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.