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.

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

Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique.

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.

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 am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.