Cinema Quotes by Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the…

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Clint Eastwood

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it…

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

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

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

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the…

— Clint Eastwood

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what …" And I'd say, "I know. I read…

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing…

— Clint Eastwood