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

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.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

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

In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing, including the change of speeds Arrius [the Roman commander] test Judah with. A real bone-breaker.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.