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

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.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

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 dozen, that would be a big day.

I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others.

Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will...

He unclenched his fists and dropped her worries, unable to catch them for her. But she picked them back up and dusted them off. She wants to be able to hold them herself now.

All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.