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" 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.' "

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" I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. "

Clint Eastwood

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Genius

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

" I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. "

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

" I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age. "

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

" There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. "

" I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves. "

" It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. "

" The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. "

Clint Eastwood

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" I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up. "

" I love big business! "

" Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff. "

" Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. "

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

" I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise. "

" I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No. "

" Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. "

Clint Eastwood

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" I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working. "

" I haven't been very active in politics. "

" 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? "

" A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries. "

" It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest. "

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

Clint Eastwood

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