You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ." — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully,… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
We were dealing with films that had very prominent roles for women and I felt I was actually contributing something. Many people… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go:… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I used to be a contract player in 1954 at Universal, I wasn't getting good roles. I was getting one-liners, and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what …" And I'd say, "I know. I read… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
You thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean, you thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share
