Quotes from Clint Eastwood

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

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

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

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

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.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

If something doesn't come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

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.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Men must know their limitations.

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

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

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.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

I've had no problem harnessing anger.

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.