An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.