Clint Eastwood Quotes

Broadchurch' has always been about the impact of crime, on all those affected.

I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

Who are your friends and supporters and how do they influence you? That's part of public concern about character.

We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.

I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.

My sort of stability as a character, it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out.

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].