Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

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

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.