Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr.is an American actor, film director, producer, musician, and political figure. He rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 May 1930
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.
I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.
I like working. That's when I'm feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.
I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.
At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.
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.
In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'
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 liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.
I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'