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" You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best. "

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" In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. "

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

" 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. "

" I guess I'm living in the present more than the past. "

" As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. "

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

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

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

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

" I just don't like killing creatures. "

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

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

" They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. "

" I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding. "

" Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. "

" 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 became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote. "

" 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. "

" You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know. "

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

" Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict. "

" Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. "

" When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people. "

" Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically? "

" I've had no problem harnessing anger. "

" God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks. "

" I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there. "

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