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

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" In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. "

" People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff. "

" I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling. "

" Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer. "

" Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor. "

" The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. "

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

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

" There has to be something in every role that interests you. "

" Society is at odds with itself. "

" 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. "

" We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has. "

" 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.' "

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

" My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make. "

" I love stories about women. "

" Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. "

" Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. "

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

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

" I have worked ever since I was 13. "

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