Clint Eastwood
If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.Collection: Fighting
You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.Collection: Gun
Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.Collection: Jobs
In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.Collection: Real
If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.Collection: Teamwork
I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.Collection: Opportunity
I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.Collection: Editing
You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.Collection: Rest Of Your Life
Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.Collection: Dog
I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.Collection: Watches
I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.Collection: Nice
My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.Collection: Wife
Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.Collection: Looks
If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid.Collection: Trying
I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.Collection: Moving
Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!Collection: Dog
Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.Collection: Mistake
There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.Collection: Running
If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.Collection: Impact
I always felt blessed that I was able to make a living in a profession [acting] that not a lot of people can make a living at, and I was able to do something I liked, rather than be in a job that I hated.Collection: Jobs
I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly... I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out".Collection: Years
Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend.Collection: Drama
I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.Collection: Children
We were dealing with films that had very prominent roles for women and I felt I was actually contributing something. Many people had wondered why I would want to do a film where the best part was a woman's part. But I wasn't afraid to be the lesser intelligence in a film.Collection: People
It's not about you. It's about them.Collection: Leadership
When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.Collection: Regret
To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.Collection: Funny
For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.Collection: Men
Scott Eastwood always came in and did a good job. And he's now graduated to better roles, and the chicks are all calling and asking where Scott is. They used to ask where I was. Now they're going, "What about Scott?"Collection: Good Job
You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.Collection: Real
Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else aloneCollection: Libertarian
None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.Collection: Risk
The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.Collection: Growth
Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?Collection: Paris
Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so.Collection: Thinking
I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.Collection: Dozen
I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.Collection: Special
I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.Collection: Thinking
I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.Collection: Libertarian
When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on.Collection: Moving
Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended.Collection: Thinking
Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.Collection: Drama
I can't do that to myself...Collection: Election
I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.Collection: Character
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.Collection: Boys
Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.Collection: Buzzards
Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?Collection: Dixie
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.Collection: Peace
I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldn't it?Collection: Running