I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant.