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

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 am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

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

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

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.