I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open. Clint Eastwood More Quotes by Clint Eastwood More Quotes From Clint Eastwood As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself. Clint Eastwood selfish trying thinking If you think it's going to rain, it will. Clint Eastwood expectations rain thinking Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least. Clint Eastwood nobody-knows people thinking Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous. Clint Eastwood building-up acting challenges When I used to be a contract player in 1954 at Universal, I wasn't getting good roles. I was getting one-liners, and then I'd be gone. But I'd hang around; I'd watch guys. And when I had days off, which was most days, I'd go down and watch other sets while they were shooting. Watch Joan Crawford or whomever. Just watch how they worked and how the director handled them. I didn't know anything about making movies, and there's a lot to learn. Clint Eastwood guy player That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together. Clint Eastwood together character ideas You have to go with your instincts. Clint Eastwood instinct At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that? Clint Eastwood gun children years I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time. Clint Eastwood regret believe thinking My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then. Clint Eastwood couple father kids Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts! Clint Eastwood united-states twenties children Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves. Clint Eastwood quality people moving Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone Clint Eastwood libertarian If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. Clint Eastwood persons ifs You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. Clint Eastwood criminals film directors There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that. Clint Eastwood finding-yourself littles way You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. Clint Eastwood stupid men school Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting. Clint Eastwood film feels way Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle. Clint Eastwood fighting important writing 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. Clint Eastwood creating real character
