Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.