This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.