Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

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

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

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

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

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.

For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.