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

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" 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? "

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" I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela. "

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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 always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. "

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" 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 think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime. "

" There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. "

" 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.' "

" You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best. "

" You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. "

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

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" They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. "

" 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. "

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