Clint Eastwood Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Movie, Sarcastic

• When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Film, Made

• Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

  Clint Eastwood

  Paris, Hollywood, Film

• The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, People, Looks

• 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

  Way, Film, Feels

• Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Film, Bigs

• Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, "c'est la vie.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, Adventure, Space

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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".

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, Cameras, Lucky

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Thinking, Directors, Film

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

• You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make "Fistful of Dollars" a big article came out that said, "Italian Westerns are finished." I said, "Swell." Then, of course, the film came out, and it did something. I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

  Clint Eastwood

  Italian, Remember, Film

  Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. November 6, 2011.

• Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.

  Clint Eastwood

  Couple, Giving, Car

• I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don't know. I could say the last one. I've had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  "Invictus - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Real, Character, Creating

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

• After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.

  Clint Eastwood

  Motivation, Two, Feelings

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

  Clint Eastwood

  Watches, Film, Involved

  "'American Sniper' director Clint Eastwood says the movie is anti-war". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2015.

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, People, Want

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Impact, Feelings, Analyzing

• I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

  Clint Eastwood

  Nice, Drama, Thinking

  "Clint Eastwood Sits Down With Bill O'Reilly". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2005.

• In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.

  Clint Eastwood

  Ideas, America, Film

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

• 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

  Writing, Fighting, Important

  "Clint Eastwood, Cast, and Writers Talk JERSEY BOYS, Adapting the Broadway Musical, Finding the Actors, the Clever Director Cameo, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 24, 2014.

• 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, Stories, Film

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

• 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

  Believe, Memorable, Would Be

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

• 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

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

• If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

  Clint Eastwood

  Fighting, Battle, Film

  ‘Hereafter’ Press Conference, thefilmstage.com. October 17, 2010.

• Everybody puts importance in money on a film set.

  Clint Eastwood

  Film, Importance, Film Set

  "Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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