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

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.

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.