I Loved The Fact That Obama Is Multi-racial. I Thought That Was Terrific, As My Wife Is The Same Racial Make-up.
And I Think It's That Time. And I Think If You Just Step Aside And Mr. Romney Can Kind Of Take Over. You Can Maybe Still Use A Plane. Though Maybe A Smaller One. Not That Big Gas Guzzler You Are Going Around To Colleges And Talking About Student Loans And Stuff Like That.
I Tend To Believe That Audiences Are Relatively Well-balanced People.
A Lot Of Dumb Pictures Have Made A Lot Of Money, But That Doesn't Mean They're Going To Be Anything Cinema Students Will Revel Over In The Future.
I Always Thought Of Myself As A Character Actor. I Never Thought Of Myself As A Leading Man.
In My Career As A Director, There's Always Been Some Point Where You Get Halfway Through It, Or Three-quarters, And You Go: 'What Is This Thing All About, And Why Am I Telling The Story? Does Anybody Really Care About Seeing This?' At That Time You Have To Say: 'Ok, Forget That And Just Go Ahead.'
I Kind Of Make A Film For Myself To Sort Of Express Myself.
Everybody Is Idealistic When You're A Kid.
I Love Big Business!
I Think Everybody Has Something That They've Been Obsessed About In Their Lifetime.
I Liked Vittorio De Sica A Lot, And I Got To Work With Him Once In A Segment Movie. He Was A Great Director. He Was A Very Charismatic Character And A Guy I Watched A Lot When He Was Directing.
My Dad Was A Big Admirer Of Sergeant York Stories From The First World War.
I've Always Been Fascinated With The Stealing Of Innocence. It's The Most Heinous Crime, And Certainly A Capital Crime If There Ever Was One.
I Don't Like To See A President Who Is Just Out Campaigning All Year Long Or For The Last Four Years. I'd Like To See Somebody Who's Going In The Office. In Fact, I'd Like To Not See Them Because That Way You'd Be Sure That They'd Be Working.
Movies Were Invented For Jimmy Cagney, And He Was Invented For The Movies. A Perfect Match.
I Played A Little Basketball. Some Football In Junior High.
Society Has Made Us Believe You Should Look Like An 18-year-old Model All Your Life.
If You Consider Film An Art Form, As Some People Do, Then The Western Would Be A Truly American Art Form, Much As Jazz Is.
I Think There Is A Lot Made Out Of Age, And What Age You Feel.
In 'Changeling,' I Tried To Show Something You'd Never See Nowadays - A Kid Sitting And Looking At The Radio. Just Sitting In Front Of The Radio And Listening. Your Mind Does The Rest.
I Am Certainly Not Politically Affiliated With Mr. Obama.
I Played Characters With Villainous Aspect. But Out-and-out Villain? No.
I'm Not Really A Hollywood Person. Not That I Don't Like L.a., But I'm Just A Northern California Guy.
There's A Rebel Lying Deep In My Soul.
I've Had No Problem Harnessing Anger.
I'm Not Afraid To Look Bad On The Screen.
At The Major Studios, You See People Wanting To Remake A Tv Series, Wanting To Make A Sequel.
Governor Romney Has A Great Business Background. He Is Extremely Well Educated. He Has Several Degrees From Harvard, Including, You Know, Business And Including A Law Degree.
When I Did 'Bird,' It Was A Surprise To Some People, First Because I Wasn't In It And Second Because Most Of The Films I'd Been Doing Were Cop Movies Or Westerns Or Adventure Films, So To Be Doing One About Charlie Parker, Who Was A Great Influence On American Music, Was A Great Thrill For Me.
Yes, I'm Always - I'm Always Surprised When You Make A Film And You Live With It A While And You Put It Out, You Never Dream That Anybody Is Ever Going To Want To Really See It.
As Much As I Love The Western Genre, I Figured If I Kept Doing Those, I'd Eventually Run Out Of Steam On That, And That Would've Been The End Of It.
Alfred Hitchcock Once Told Me, When I Was Analyzing A Lot Of Things About His Pictures, 'Clint, You Must Remember, It's Only A Movie.'
You Should Never Give Up Your Inner Self.
In 'Gran Torino,' I Play A Guy Who's Racially Offensive. But He Learned. It Shows That You're Never Too Old To Learn And Embrace People That You Don't Understand To Begin With. It Seems Like Nobody Else Got That Message, I Guess.
You Make A Movie, And If Somebody Reads Something Into It, Then Great, More Power To Him.
What You Put Into Life Is What You Get Out Of It.
This Film Cost $31 Million. With That Kind Of Money I Could Have Invaded Some Country.
There's Only One Way To Have A Happy Marriage And As Soon As I Learn What It Is I'll Get Married Again.
Crimes Against Children Are The Most Heinous Crime. That, For Me, Would Be A Reason For Capital Punishment Because Children Are Innocent And Need The Guidance Of An Adult Society.
I Just Think It Is Important That You Realize, That You're The Best In The World. Whether You Are A Democrat Or Republican Or Whether You're Libertarian Or Whatever, You Are The Best. And We Should Not Ever Forget That. And When Somebody Does Not Do The Job, We Got To Let Them Go.
You Always Want To Quit While You Are Ahead. You Don't Want To Be Like A Fighter Who Stays Too Long In The Ring Until You're Not Performing At Your Best.
I Think Being Able To Age Gracefully Is A Very Important Talent. It Is Too Late For Me.
I Mean, I've Always Been A Libertarian. Leave Everybody Alone. Let Everybody Else Do What They Want. Just Stay Out Of Everybody Else's Hair.
I Was Always Respectful Of People Who Were Deeply Religious Because I Always Felt That If They Gave Themselves To It, Then It Had To Be Important To Them. But If You Can Go Through Life Without It, That's Ok, Too. It's Whatever Suits You.
It's A Very Confusing Era That We're In.
Of Course We All Know Biden Is The Intellect Of The Democratic Party. Kind Of A Grin With A Body Behind It.
I Would Just Like To Say Something, Ladies And Gentlemen. Something That I Think Is Very Important. It Is That, You, We - We Own This Country. We - We Own It. It Is Not You Owning It, And Not Politicians Owning It. Politicians Are Employees Of Ours.
There Are Certain Age Limits On Police Officers. They'd Have Retired Me Out At 65.
If You're Really Satisfied With Your Position On Something, You Just Say, 'Hey;' You Just Very Calmly Present Something.
I Was Drafted During The Korean War. None Of Us Wanted To Go... It Was Only A Couple Of Years After World War Ii Had Ended. We Said, 'Wait A Second? Didn't We Just Get Through With That?'