The film industry is a great industry with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies. In a democratic country I do not think the public will tolerate a removal of its right to decide what it thinks of the ideas and performances of those who make the movie industry work. (29 October 1947)

I have waited a while before saying anything about the Un-American Activities Committee's current investigation of the Hollywood film industry. I would not be …

What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the …

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best …

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

With Star Wars, George put the butter back into the popcorn.

'Tune in next week, Same Stone Cold Time, Same Stone Cold Channel!' (parody of the most famous Batman ending narration: Tune in next week, Same Bat Time, Same …