What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

Every story has its demands.

I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go to Italy and Spain and do an Italian/Spanish/German co-production with an Italian director who's only directed one movie?" It wasn't like I was going there to be with Federico Fellini. But something was there, and I thought, Well, I loved this story when it was told by Akira Kurosawa; maybe this is a good idea. That's an instinctive moment. A Fistful of Dollars was made.