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" Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know. "

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" 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 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. "

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

" I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy. "

" 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 mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. "

" If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get. "

" 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. "

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

" I was drafted during the Korean War. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future. "

" As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success. "

" A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. "

Political Correctness

" Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving. "

" I just don't like killing creatures. "

" There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. "

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

" Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power. "

" I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection. "

" I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too. "

" Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected. "

" I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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