Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

We boil at different degrees.

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.