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

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

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

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.

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.