I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

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

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script.

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.