The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

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

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

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

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

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.