Clint Eastwood, 95, says ‘will work as long as I can’; opens up about Hollywood's good old days
Clint says that he misses the old days, when people came up with fresh ideas instead of just making remakes and sequels.
Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood, 95, is still doing what he loves most: making movies. In a talk with an Austrian newspaper Kurier, Clint said he doesn’t like how Hollywood has changed. He misses the old days, when people came up with fresh ideas instead of just making remakes and sequels.
Eastwood said, “There’s no reason why a man can’t get better with age.” He added, “And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I’m not one of them.”
He continued, “I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea,” he said. “We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I’ve shot sequels three times, but I haven’t been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home."
Clint also said he loves learning new things, and that’s what keeps him going. He concluded by saying, “As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year. And that's why I will work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile."
Clint Eastwood’s movie career goes way back. He started in the 1950s, but it was the 1960s that made him a star — especially in Westerns. Remember The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? That was Clint. Dirty Harry? That was him too. And later, he surprised everyone by becoming a great director — winning Oscars for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.
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Clint Eastwood, 95, says ‘will work as long as I can’; opens up about Hollywood's good old days
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Jun 03, 2025 03:30 AM IST
Clint says that he misses the old days, when people came up with fresh ideas instead of just making remakes and sequels.
Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood, 95, is still doing what he loves most: making movies. In a talk with an Austrian newspaper Kurier, Clint said he doesn’t like how Hollywood has changed. He misses the old days, when people came up with fresh ideas instead of just making remakes and sequels.
Clint Eastwood misses the old days, when people came up with fresh ideas instead of just making remakes and sequels.(REUTERS)
Clint Eastwood misses the old days, when people came up with fresh ideas instead of just making remakes and sequels.(REUTERS)
Eastwood said, “There’s no reason why a man can’t get better with age.” He added, “And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I’m not one of them.”
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He continued, “I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea,” he said. “We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I’ve shot sequels three times, but I haven’t been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home."
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Clint also said he loves learning new things, and that’s what keeps him going. He concluded by saying, “As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year. And that's why I will work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile."
Clint Eastwood’s movie career goes way back. He started in the 1950s, but it was the 1960s that made him a star — especially in Westerns. Remember The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? That was Clint. Dirty Harry? That was him too. And later, he surprised everyone by becoming a great director — winning Oscars for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.
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Here is the list of Clint Eastwood's movies:
Play Misty for Me
The Beguiled: The Storyteller
Breezy
High Plains Drifter
The Eiger Sanction
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Gauntlet
Bronco Billy
Firefox
Honkytonk Man
Sudden Impact
Pale Rider
Heartbreak Ridge
Bird
The Rookie
White Hunter Black Heart
Unforgiven
A Perfect World
The Bridges of Madison County
Absolute Power
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
True Crime
Space Cowboys
Blood Work
Mystic River
Million Dollar Baby
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Changeling
Gran Torino
Invictus
Hereafter
J. Edgar
The Blues: Piano Blues
Jersey Boys
American Sniper
Amazing Stories
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Clint Eastwood: Director
The Mule
Richard Jewell
Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
Changeling (duplicate)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dirty Harry
The Enforcer
The 15:17 to Paris
Sully
Hang 'Em High
Coogan's Bluff
A Fistful of Dollars
Ambush at Cimarron Pass
Lafayette Escadrille
Joe Kidd
Coogan's Bluff (duplicate)
Where Eagles Dare
For a Few Dollars More
Paint Your Wagon
Kelly's Heroes
The Beguiled
Escape from Alcatraz
Every Which Way But Loose
Tightrope
City Heat
The Dead Pool
Pink Cadillac
In the Line of Fire
Casper
Kurosawa's Way
Trouble with the Curve
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Away All Boats
Star in the Dust
Francis in the Navy
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Revenge of the Creature
Tarantula
Never Say Goodbye
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