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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. "

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" My whole life has been one big improvisation. "

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

" When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work. "

" 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. "

" Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. "

" I love big business! "

" 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.' "

" I don't mind telling a dark side. "

" It would be great to be 105 and still making films. "

" We boil at different degrees. "

" Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view. "

" You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through. "

" I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy. "

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

" I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. "

" My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared. "

" 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 became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote. "

" It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper. "

" 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. "

" The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach. "

" The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive. "

" It's a very confusing era that we're in. "

" I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel. "

" I like a drama. "