With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

[In relationships with a directors] I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.