Film Director Quotes

“I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.”

“I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.”

“Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.”

“It's not about you. It's about them.”

“Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.”

“Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.”

“I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.”

“I've always told my son Scott the same thing: Don't rush into anything, because there's gonna be a lot of fish in the sea. You can be one of the people that's lucky enough not to become a loser two and three and four times over like people do, just by being a little more patient.”

“There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.”

“Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.”

“Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.”

“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.”

“I can't do that to myself...”

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

“The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.”

“For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.”

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

“Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.”

“[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.”

“My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.”

“Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.”

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

“At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. And I think we're at a point now where a lot of older women take better care of themselves, compared to the 1940s and '50s when women were programmed to figure it's all over after 30.”

“The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.”

“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.”