The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.
I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.
The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.