I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life. — 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
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive… — 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 Image
I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 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. All you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn’t ordered to do. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
