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

• You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

  Clint Eastwood

  Directors, Criminals, Film

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Featured Filmmaker: Clint Eastwood". www.ign.com. October 6, 2003.

• I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ."

  Clint Eastwood

  Guy, Film

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, Competition, Done

• When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

  Clint Eastwood

  Brain, Down And, Sitting Down

  "Clint Eastwood As a Changeling". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2008.

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Risk, Twenties, Dollars

• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Film

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• 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.

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