Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

And in contrast to the Communist revolution in Russia and the Communist attempts at revolution in Germany from 1918 through 1923, Hitler's were virtually blood

The search is more important than the destination

What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.