You have to be careful of the advice you take.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.

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

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.