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I miss my mother very, very much.
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
You have to be careful of the advice you take.
We crash into each other just so we can feel something.
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.
It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.
I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.
We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.
As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.
There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.
I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.
As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.
Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.
The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.
I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.
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 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've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.
I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.
You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'
The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.
What happens when these young men and women come home so scarred and so wounded? We are ignoring that fact. We're just shoving them under the carpet.
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 us.
I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.
In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.
My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.