"I like the inspiration of the first..." - Quote by Clint Eastwood

“If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.”

“My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.”

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

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”

“I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.”

“The eternal feminine doth draw us upward.[Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]”

“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.”

“If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.”

“There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The movies belong to the people. You make them and you put them out. For me, I love the process of making films. For me, my favorite film is always my next one.”