Clint Eastwood

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band.

I'm not a regrets-type person.

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'

Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.