As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood..

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut..

I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with fl….

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures..

I miss my mother very, very much..

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like bei….

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable..

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of ….

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done..

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired fr….

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half doze….

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20..

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone el….

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow..

All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or a….

You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have fo….

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liber….

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling ….

If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actual….

The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protec….

If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the….