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Film Quotes by Clint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood says a director’s politics don’t matter as long as the film gets made. He believes a good movie needs a clear drama, strong characters, and the creator’s instinct, not just flashy effects. When a project stalls, he asks what the story is about and trusts his gut to finish it.

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I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

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I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

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It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

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If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

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I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ."

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You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

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Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

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I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

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I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in…

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When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and…

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Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive…

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If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing.…

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I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a…

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Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the…

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You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects.…

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If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much…

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Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple…

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Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my…

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Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't…

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Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with…

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We were dealing with films that had very prominent roles for women and I felt I was actually contributing something. Many people…

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Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind…

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I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the…

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You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed,…

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The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if…

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Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the…

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After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds…

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Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

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I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

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At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

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Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

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This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

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I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.

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I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

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I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.

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An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long…

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Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way…

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Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

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As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully,…

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Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put…

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I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by…

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…

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do.

I love stories about women.

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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…

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started…

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…

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…

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby…

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

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…