"If you approach a film with the..." - Quote by Clint Eastwood
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.
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“In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.”
“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.”
“Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.”
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“I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the stage, so I stole that from him.”
“I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.”
“Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.”
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“Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.”
“Haven't you heard, though,About the ships where war has found them outAt sea, about the towns where war has comeThrough opening clouds at night with droning speedFurther o'erhead than all but stars and angelsAnd children in the ships and in the towns?”
“Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.”