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
When you're an actor, you're so busy: people are always coming up to you and pulling your collar, making sure that things fit, brushing your hair and you're always being yanked up, so finally when you're behind a camera, you're just a slob.
Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.
I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.
I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character.
My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.
You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.
When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.
Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.
You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.
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 to play something you're not than it is to play something you are.
Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.
[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.
The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.