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" When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared. "

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" I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up. "

" I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up. "

" I haven't been very active in politics. "

" 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. "

" I have worked ever since I was 13. "

" Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that. "

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

" Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. "

" I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela. "

" They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks. "

" I do believe in self-help. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries. "

" I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people. "

" 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. "

" There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. "

" I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time. "

" 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?' "

" I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. "

" President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. "

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

" 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. "

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