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

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" When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me. "

" I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing. "

" I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. "

" I do believe in self-help. "

" 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. "

" I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. "

" 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. "

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

" I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. "

" There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it. "

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

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

" Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. "

" 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. "

" I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that. "

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

" Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum. "

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

" My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. "

" Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully. "

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

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

" In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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