United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.