"When I'm a director, I look at..." - Quote by Clint Eastwood
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
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“Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.”
“I've had no problem harnessing anger.”
“I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.”
More on Directing
“Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.”
“The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.”
“As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.”
More on Acting
“One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.”
“That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."”
“I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.”