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" The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim. "

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" 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. "

" As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it. "

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

" I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show. "

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

" I love stories about women. "

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

" I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you. "

" I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him. "

" 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? "

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

" I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. "

" This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. "

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

" I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?' "

" Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off. "

" 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. "

" I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime. "

" I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. "

" 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. "

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

" Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. "

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

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

" I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested. "

" Some people feel that the world owes them a living. "