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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. "

" My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Society is at odds with itself. "

" You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good. "

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

" A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama. "

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

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

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

" I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel. "

" As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to. "

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