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" Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. "

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" I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy. "

" If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something. "

" 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've had no problem harnessing anger. "

" My whole life has been one big improvisation. "

" I guess I'm living in the present more than the past. "

" This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. "

" 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. "

" Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid. "

" I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that. "

" There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial. "

" I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself. "

" I love stories about women. "

" I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.' "

" Fate pulls you in different directions. "

" Every story has its demands. "

" 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. "

" I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. "

" Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. "

" I keep working because I learn something new all the time. "

" My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. "

" I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high. "

" Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know. "

" I like a drama. "

" 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. "

" I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. "