You've achieved success in your field when you do not know whether what you are doing is work or play.- Warren Beatty
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position do not need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
When I produce a movie - and I have produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I am frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he is a Schwarzenegger Republican.
That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that is what's happening. They either go, or they do not go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
