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.

We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

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

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

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

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.