Clint Eastwood

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

You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.

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 think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime.

I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

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

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.