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.

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.

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

She is the innocent stuff in the background of time.

Parenting role-play change every ten years from affection to duty to responsibility, and then the cycle must reverse with next generation playing the same in the reverse sequence.

Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had a better answer, but I'm very businesslike about my runs.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.