I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
