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.

Life is like a B-picture script.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

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

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

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.