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

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" 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. "

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

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" As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. "

" 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. "

" I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. "

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" 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'm not a regrets-type person. "

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" I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people. "

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

" On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made. "

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

" 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 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 loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up. "

" The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men. "

" When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it. "

" You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. "

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