I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.

It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

You don't need a love scene to show love.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

We are linked by our shadows, not by our light.

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private.

I used to have a really big crush on Hayden Christensen.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end.

I have nothing to complain about.

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

I never wrote my books especially for children.

As in geology so in social institutions we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

The great law of nature is that it never stops. There is no end.

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.

It gets better and better being me

My feet are dogs.

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.