Above All, A Director Has To Be

To The Divisive Forces That Would Take Freedom Away, I Want To Tell You Something: You Can Have My Gun. You Can Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands!

My Dad Always Said He Wanted To Be Remembered For His Body Of Work, And He's Made More Than 75 Pictures, Some Good, Some Bad, And They Will Be His Legacy To The World Of Acting.

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.

Society Mends Its Wounds. And That's Invariably True In All The Tragedies, In The Comedies As Well. And Certainly In The Histories.

If You Talk About Race, It Does Not Make You A Racist. If You See Distinctions Between The Genders, It Does Not Make You A Sexist. If You Think Critically About A Denomination, It Does Not Make You Anti-religion. If You Accept But Don't Celebrate Homosexuality, It Does Not Make You A Homophobe.