That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.