And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in this horrible world and for an hour and a half you duck into a dark room and it's air-conditioned and the sun is not blinding you and you leave the terror of the universe behind and you are completely transported into an escapist situation. The women are beautiful, the men are witty and heroic, nobody has terrible problems and this is a delightful escapist thing, and you leave the theater refreshed.

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s...but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.