Quotes

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

[on writer/director Richard Brooks] He was both intense and very feeling, very human. He had a wonderful, wonderful sense of other people. He was not particularly enamored of himself. He was the kind off guy who had a sense of fairness, and he employed that sense in his life, and in his work, so that some people were surprised at him, some people deeply loved him, and some people were just put off by him.

[from Sidney Poitier's speech about Widmark at the D.W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement] The generosity of spirit that lights his way will also warm your heart...

[saluting film writers and directors, at the 2002 Academy Awards] They knew the odds that stood against them. Still those filmmakers persevered, speaking through their art to the best in all of us. And I benefited from their effort. The industry benefited from their effort. America benefited from their effort. And, in many ways, the world has also benefited from their effort.