In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

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

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.