[1987] "Robert Bork wants to be a Supreme Court justice. But the record shows he has a strange idea of what justice is. He defended poll taxes and literacy tests, which kept many Americans from voting. He opposed the civil rights law that ended `whites on...
[On The Boys from Brazil (1978)] "I felt, Laurence Olivier felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image....
They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it`s harder to make them interesting.
Of the movies I`ve done, there isn`t much I really like. The Gunfighter (1950), Roman Holiday (1953), Twelve O`Clock High (1949) I feel were my best. (1956)