"I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanist..." — 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.