I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend
Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.
I accept all awards. I like them.
