The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.

Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.