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" 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? "

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" When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again. "

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

" When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice. "

" Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff. "

" Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.' "

" I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. "

" I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love stories about women. "

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

" The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. "

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

" I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do. "

" I have worked ever since I was 13. "

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

" 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. "

" Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. "

" I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel. "

" In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess. "

" I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time. "

" 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. "

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