Quotes

Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.

I'm not a politician.

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

[on the rise of rogue artificial intelligence] It felt way out of the realm of possibility at that time. How quickly that has changed. It's extraordinary, the leaps and bounds we have made in technological terms. It's scary. We're obviously not getting a handle on it.

[on being considered to be cast as James Bond by producer Albert Broccoli] We had lunch and he said, Do you still have a British passport? I said, No, I have a German passport. [His face] went down like a curtain. So that was the end of that. They were very upset, they felt they had a new James Bond.

[on a potential remake of Colossus: The Forbin Project] They should bloody well re-release it with the appropriate advertising and ... all that. It's a very prescient film. They should re-release it, period. Not remake it, re-release it.

[on filming John Jacob Astor's death scene in Titanic] I see the cameramen with diving suits on and oxygen tanks, I say, Woah! What did I get into? The water got higher and higher. I was panicked. Really panicked! Thankfully, all went well, and the scene wrapped without incident.

[on how WWII was portrayed in 60s TV shows] That war, the hardest, most terrible war in the history of man lasted six years. The world fought Germany. So to afterwards make caricatures of the opponents is to do a disservice, but that myth of omnipotence eventually led to the Vietnam war, because Hollywood had contributed to the notion that we alone won that war, America, it didn't, but the propaganda was enormous. Hollywood as an enormous influence.