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" Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. "

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" 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? "

" If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving. "

" Man becomes his most creative during war. "

" President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. "

" I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him. "

" Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks. "

" I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. "

" There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. "

" Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. "

" The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. "

" If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music. "

" The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive. "

" A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries. "

" When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. "

" 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 never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. "

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" When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is. "

" My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him. "

" 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. "

" I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. "

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" I'm not a regrets-type person. "

" I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people. "