Clint Eastwood is a former mayor

on directing

"Find your marks, say a few lines."
- Clint Eastwood [born 1930]

Clint Eastwood's Carmel by the Sea

 

blast

Bill Munny

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have.

empathetic dictator

"The idea that you need to be a monster to create interesting work needs to be squelched."
- Bradly Whitford on working with Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood

on adversity

"Scar tissue is the foundation of character."
- Senator Ben Sasse on not coddling your kids

Will Munny:

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

- From 1992's Unforgiven

movies that work and don't work

"You always aim for the bull's eye, but you don't always hit it."
- Clint Eastwood

on directing

"I hire you. You know what you're doing. I know what I'm doing. Let's go make a movie."
- Morgan Freeman on Clint Eastwood's directing philosophy where single and second takes are common where the industry average can be five of six takes.

preacher poem

John "Thunderbolt" Doherty

Clock uncoils the working day; and he wakes up feeling his youth has gone away.

From 1974's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

An earlier reference to Eastwood here.

Eastwood Law

"There was a time years and years and years ago where [Clint] Eastwood would take over a film after it was cast, the Director cast, the crew cast and shooting had started and then at a certain point Eastwood would have a disagreement or whatever and let the Director go and take it over. He did that a few times and then they instituted what they called, at least euphemistically, the 'Eastwood Law', which meant that you could not fire a Director after a certain point. By that time Eastwood had already learned how to Direct to the point where he was being accepted by Hollywood and scripts were being offered to him."

- Dustin Hoffman [born 1937]

nebby

the opposite: Clint Eastwood [born 1930], who once owned Carmel's Hog's Breath Inn, which might still serve Dirty Martinis.

short for nebbish. noun: A person regarded as weak-willed or timid.

[Yiddish nebekh, poor, unfortunate, of Slavic origin.]