I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

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.

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.