In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

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

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

I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.

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

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

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