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" When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. "

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

" I don't mind telling a dark side. "

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

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

" I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself. "

" I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet. "

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

" Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks. "

" My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. "

" 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. "

" Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them. "

" Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. "

" When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is. "

" 'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out. "

" I have worked ever since I was 13. "

" I like a drama. "