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.

What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.

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

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.

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

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

I've been a public person for most of my life. It has advantages and disadvantages. I can't take my kids to Disneyland. On the other hand, I can get a table at a restaurant or tickets to a play.