Clint Eastwood: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)

Like few other stars, Clint Eastwood has shaped his own career by appearing almost exclusively in films he produced or co-produced, frequently under his own direction. Eastwood is a industry insider who works through the established Hollywood system, yet he remains an outsider by steadfastly refusing to heed cultural & aesthetic trends in film production & style. The interviews collected here range over the nearly three decades of Clint Eastwood's directorial career. The emphasis is on practical filmmaking issues & on his philosophy of filmmaking. Nearly half are from British & European sources. The latter show how Europeans were praising him as a director while many American critics had not yet acknowledged him as an actor of merit.