They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. Clint Eastwood More Quotes by Clint Eastwood More Quotes From Clint Eastwood At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it. Clint Eastwood certain causes reason I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear. Clint Eastwood theme dark looks 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. Clint Eastwood judging editing years You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are. Clint Eastwood age fun trying Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers. Clint Eastwood fun blood years I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies. Clint Eastwood teenager trends people I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film. Clint Eastwood rumor film stories As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life. Clint Eastwood actors chance taste I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character. Clint Eastwood angle different character All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess. Clint Eastwood oscars majority people The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it. Clint Eastwood horse drama book 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. Clint Eastwood trying years moving Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far - - Richard Widmark comes to mind (playing Tommy Udo in "Kiss of Death") or something like that, where you do some famous role and everybody imitates you for the rest of your life. But obviously it's much more fun to play something you're not than it is to play something you are. Clint Eastwood kissing play fun Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"? Clint Eastwood years moving thinking There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness. Clint Eastwood organization long people With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. Clint Eastwood power-corrupts office people When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one. Clint Eastwood film directors thinking Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not. Clint Eastwood would-be memorable believe [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 stories want philosophy Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing. Clint Eastwood actors careers character
