Acting gets into your
Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It’s fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers. Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
[FBI] philosophy is Go
[FBI] philosophy is Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we’ll love it. So that’s that. Clint Eastwood
I just kind of
I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s – actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond – but this was all prior to the information age so we didn’t know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, … Read more
I do believe if
I do believe if one keeps busy it’s very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and we read in Europe that people there are talking about their retirement age and moving it to 67 or something. Well, back when they started retirement funds and everything, the average age was … Read more
Historically, actors have been
Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far – – Richard Widmark comes to mind (playing Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death) or something like that, where you do some famous role and everybody imitates you for the rest of your life. But obviously it’s much more fun … Read more
As a movie actor,
As a movie actor, once you’ve become known, you’re observed all the time so you don’t get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it’s not quite the same and there’s something to be said for a more anonymous life. Clint Eastwood
If you’ve done what
If you’ve done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it’s yours. And if people don’t like it, then they just don’t agree with you on that subject matter, and that’s life. Clint Eastwood
[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I’m
[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I’m sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don’t like about his character. Clint Eastwood
In America, instead of
In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience. Clint Eastwood
I don’t write. I
I don’t write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don’t write from scratch. I wish I had that ability. Clint Eastwood