But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album.