My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see?… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to… — 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
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you… — 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 always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find… — 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 play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret… — 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 Image
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