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" Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth. "

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" 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. "

" The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. "

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

" I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that. "

" I've had no problem harnessing anger. "

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

" I do believe in self-help. "

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

" I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody. "

" The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama. "

" Fate pulls you in different directions. "

" If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree. "

" 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. "

" There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial. "