I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy.