Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.
The learning process continues until the day you die.
When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.
When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.