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.

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.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

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.

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.

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