Actor

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Aku ingin mengatakan sesuatu, tuan dan nyonya. Sesuatu yang aku rasa sangat penting adalah anda, kita-kita yang empunya negara ini. Kita. Kita memilikinya. Bukan kamu yang memilikinya dan bukan politisi yang memilikinya. Politisi hanyalah pegawai kita semua.

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

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Kamu membuat sebuah film, dan jika seseorang mendapatkan sesuatu dari film itu, itu bagus, ia mendapatkan kekuatan lebih.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Ketika kamu muda, kamu sangat gegabah. Kemudian, kamu semakin konservatif. Kemudian kamu gegabah lagi.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Aku tidak percaya akan pesimisme. Jika sesuatu tidak datang sesuai dengan yang dirimu harapkan, tetaplah maju. Jika kamu rasa akan hujan, ya akan hujan.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

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

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.