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

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

One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

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.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

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.

You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking down everything I'm saying because you think I'm such a marvelous fellow but because your editors say go get 1,200 words or whatever on Chuck Heston.