American - Actor | May 31, 1930 -
I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.
Clint Eastwood
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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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When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
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I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.
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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.
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Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.
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When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
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I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.
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I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
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I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.
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I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.
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I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.
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