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I Think People In Italy Live Their Lives Better Than We Do. It's An Older Country, And They've Learned To Celebrate Dinner And Lunch, Whereas We Sort Of Eat As Quickly As We Can To Get Through It.

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I Think People In Italy Live Their Lives Better Than We Do. It's An Older Country, And They've Learned To Celebrate Dinner And Lunch, Whereas We Sort Of Eat As Quickly As We Can To Get Through It.

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I Find That It's A Very Odd Thing To Think Of Competition When You're Talking About What I Still Think Of As Art. I Don't Think Of Competing With Actors Or Filmmakers At All. You Do Compete, In A Way, At The Box Office, But We're Far Enough Apart When Both Films Are Coming Out That I'm Not Concerned With That Either.

The Secret Of Directing Is Working With Really Good People.

You Can't Beat Your Enemy Anymore Through Wars; Instead You Create An Entire Generation Of People Revenge-seeking. [...] Our Opponents Are Going To Resort To Car Bombs And Suicide Attacks Because They Have No Other Way To Win. I Believe (rumsfeld) Thinks This Is A War That Can Be Won, But There Is No Such Thing Anymore. We Can't Beat Anyone Anymore.

I Certainly Direct With Confidence Even If I'm Not Confident. I Learned Early On As An Actor That Confidence Can Be Faked, And It's Not Always A Terrible Thing To Do. A Lot Of Times If People Feel You're Confident, Then They're Confident.

We're Always Going To Be A Society That's Going To Slow Down And Look At The Wreck On The Side If The Road If There Is One. We're Always Going To Do That Because It's Still Fascinating And It's Human Nature.

I Resolve Not To Drink Liquids Before Donning The Bat-suit.

I Am The Least Qualified Person To Comment On Anyone Playing The Role Of Batman Since I So Terribly Destroyed The Part.

I Probably Wouldn't Be A Good Spokesman For An Electric Car, Because I'll Still Get On A Private Jet, And One Flight On A Private Jet Undoes All My Electric-car Good Deeds.

I'm Not Completely Against Khakis. It's Just The Level That You Have To Wear Them. The Higher You Pull Them, Then More Excruciating It Is.

I've Been Lucky Enough To Do A Few Films That Will Last Longer Than An Opening Weekend And Those Films Are The Ones I'm Proud Of.

I Get Asked A Lot About Getting Into Politics. I Say, 'take A Look At Politics. You Tell Me What Seems Appealing About That.'

The Owner Of A Local Cannabis Café Told Reporters George Clooney Was No Stranger There.

It's Very Easy For People To Be Critical Of President Obama's First Term, But Let's Face It, He Didn't Exactly Inherit The Country In The Best Shape.

Whatever Anybody Believes As Long As It Doesn't Hurt Anybody Else, It's Fair Enough, And Works, And I Think, Is Real, And Matters. I Don't Happen To Have Those Beliefs, As Much, You Know, I Don't Believe In Those Things.

At Some Point In Our Lifetime, Gay Marriage Won't Be An Issue, And Everyone Who Stood Against This Civil Right Will Look As Outdated As George Wallace Standing On The School Steps Keeping James Hood From Entering The University Of Alabama Because He Was Black.

It Is Rather Astonishing That The United States Does Not Play Ball With The Icc, Considering Our Country Was The Beacon Of The Idea Of An International Criminal Court.

I'm Certainly The Last Person To Give Advice On, Well, Anything.

I Know What My Limitations Are As An Actor, But My Strength Is Putting Myself Into A Well-written Part. When I Get In Trouble Is When I Have To Fix It, Or When I Have To Carry It On Personality.

For Me The Definition Of A Patriot Is Someone Who Is Willing To Constantly Question The Government; That’s What Separates Us From Other Countries.

Everyone Makes Moral Choices That Better Themselves And Hurt Someone Else Along The Way - And Whether Or Not The Means Justify The Ends. And That, To Me, Is Universal.

I Think It's The Most Responsible Thing You Can Do, To Have Kids. It's Not Something To Be Taken Lightly. I Don't Have That Gene That People Have To Replicate.

We Try To Make Films For People [that Are] The Films That We'd Like To See. They're Not Easy To Get Made. They're Hard To Get Made. You Have To Keep The Budget Low To Get Them Made. But At The End Of The Day, I Don't Really Worry About Competition, Because I Don't Really Think Of It That Way. I Don't Feel Like I'm In A Race With Anybody.

As A Director, I Do Very Few Takes, Because I Feel Like You Hire The Right Actor And They'll Do The Job Right. And The Directors That I've Worked With And Had The Best Luck With - Jason And [ Steven] Soderbergh And The Coen Brothers - All Have Been That Kind Of Director.

Life’s Better With Company. Everybody Needs A Co-pilot.

There's No Connection Between Al-qaeda And Iraq.

The Truth Of The Matter Is The Real Story Are The People Who Rise Above All Of This Incredible Cruelty. Otherwise That Cruelty Wins.

Oceans Is About Glamour. I Can't Go Looking Like A Slob Can I?

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