Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beattyis an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds. Beatty is the first and only person to have been twice nominated for acting in, directing, writing and producing the same film – first with Heaven Can Wait, and again with Reds...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth30 March 1937
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
Arnold says he's not in this for the short run. We have to show him - neither are we!
But I made... ah, several pictures and then it got to the point where I would have to make a good picture or get myself into trouble.
I knew Reagan and I was a friend of Reagan. I disagreed with many, many things that Reagan stood for, but I don't think that Reagan would have handled things this way. Well, Reagan did raise taxes when he had to and Reagan was never disrespectful to the legislature.
Oh, I guess it's selfishness. I can make a movie when I want to. I don't need to work as a hired actor. I produce, I write, I direct. I guess I like it.
It's something that you never take off the table; that would be sort of a demonstration of poor citizenship. The answer is I don't know and the truth is that I don't want to do it.
I've always preferred not to run for public office, and I still do, ... Run, Warren, run!
You're talking about a man that taught me more than anybody else did about how to make movies.
By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.
Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.
It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.
I believe that DVD is that which gives some hope to retaining some content in movies that will appeal to an older audience or the more sophisticated audience or the audience that doesn't need or desire to see a movie on a Friday night.
Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.
I'm not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person."
You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.