Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit theater, there's no reason why this cannot go on as a senior-citizen-driven business for years. Especially with movies for adults.

I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.