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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."

"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."

"I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know."

"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
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"Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end."

"In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president."

"The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking."

"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."

"Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories."

"Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy."

"You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s."

"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."

"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."
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