Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.