I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?