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" 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.' "
Clint Eastwood
Me
Things
You
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" I don't mind telling a dark side. "
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" There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it. "
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" The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. "
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Now
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" Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum. "
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" Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power. "
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He
Exceeded
" There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65. "
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Police
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" I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself. "
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Film
Make
Myself
" I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. "
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I Am
Intellectual
" If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. "
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Something
Person
" Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them. "
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Something
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" If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. "
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Doing
Reality
People
" Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. "
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Sometimes
Better
Change
" They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. "
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Lightning
They Say
Say
" The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. "
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Lot
Like
Innocence
" I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it. "
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Free
People
Mind
" I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad. "
Clint Eastwood
Like
Bad
Fall
" Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid. "
Clint Eastwood
Idealistic
Kid
You
" 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.' "
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You
Time
Story
" You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. "
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You
Somebody
Power
" I love big business! "
Clint Eastwood
Big Business
Love
Big
" Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff. "
Clint Eastwood
Starting
Worry
Liberal
" I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen. "
Clint Eastwood
Afraid
Bad
Look
" When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared. "
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Came
Thought
Movies
" Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully. "
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Lot
Try
Eat
" 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. "
Clint Eastwood
Art
You
People
" Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. "
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Know
Behind
Body
" I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. "
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Question
Me
Genius
" There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person. "
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World
Person
Two
" When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it? "
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I See
Ask
Like
" The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. "
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You
Tolerance
Talk