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" 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 reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show. "

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

" Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected. "

" I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War. "

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

" I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff. "

" 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 want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up. "

" There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody. "

" As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success. "

" I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. "

" I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. "

" I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too. "

" I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet. "

" 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. "

" I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested. "

" 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. "

" You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through. "

" Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it. "

" Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. "

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

" A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. "

Political Correctness

" The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach. "

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

" 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.' "

" I love stories about women. "

" 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? "

" I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character. "