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

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

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.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.