"In my career as a director, there's..." - Quote by Clint Eastwood
In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'
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“The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.”
“Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.”
“You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.”
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“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”
“When we are high and airy hundreds sayThat if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,While those same hundreds mock another dayBecause we have made our art of common things.”
“Imagination is the highest form of research.”
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“We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.”
“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.”
“It would be great to be 105 and still making films.”