A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

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

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

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

You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.