I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

You don't see the world as it is, you see it, as you are.

When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it.

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.