A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

I've always had trouble with authority.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.