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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match. "

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. "

" 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. "

" Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically? "

" Every story has its demands. "

" You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know. "

" 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. "

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

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

" What you put into life is what you get out of it. "

" In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey. "

" Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. "

" My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself. "

" When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet. "

" You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him. "

" I'm a day-to-day-type person. "

" There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65. "

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" There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. "

" I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. "

" My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. "

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