Clint Eastwood
My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself.
I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.
I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.
The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.
A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
Society is at odds with itself.
I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.
Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.
I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.
People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.
As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.
Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.
Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.
I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.
As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.
Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.
I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.
I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.
I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.
I don't mind telling a dark side.
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.
I like a drama.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.
I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'
Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
I think everybody has something that they've been obsessed about in their lifetime.
There has to be something in every role that interests you.
Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.