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

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

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.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

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

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.