Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

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.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.