[speaking in 1978] "I guess I go overboard to avoid taking credit for the image I have. That`s why it`s easier to live with myself. I don`t feel I`m totally a man of integrity."
[on Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, 1976] "I didn`t help or discourage them or lead them by the hand. I`m not trying to set myself up as a good father, because I wasn`t a good father. But I think I knew instinctively that if they did make it, they would like ...
I`m not that pristine pure, I guess I`ve broken as many rules as the next feller. But I reckon my face looks honest enough and if people buy it, Hallelujah.
[on John Ford] He had instinctively a beautiful eye for the camera. But he was also an egomaniac.
