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
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
Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies. — 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
I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly... I enjoy making films… — 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
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
I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted… — 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
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
If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make "Fistful of Dollars" a big article came… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or… — 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
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
![“I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.” quote by Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6bb/clint-eastwood-513_certain_i-have-great-respect-for-the-fbi-and-i-k_648960.jpg)
