When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

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.