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

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

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men

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

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

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

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.