I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.

We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.