A war put off is not a war avoided.

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

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.

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

What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.