Clint Eastwood discusses Gran Torino

Posted on Dec 29, 2008 in BHA NEWS N' HEADLINES | View Comments

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CNN: When you read the script, were you at all concerned about the nature of the language?

Clint Eastwood: No, I wasn’t. If you’re going to learn something and progress in the movie as a character, you have to start as something else in order to learn tolerance (MESSAGE:) And your character obviously is never too old to learn that, so he has to be a certain way.

But I — being politically incorrect — I find [it] fascinating because I hate the so-called PC thing. I think that’s one of the things that’s damaging our generation at the present time. Everybody is taking themselves and everything so seriously. If they just relax a little more and take themselves and everything else a little less seriously, they’d have a lot more fun.

CNN: You’re a legend. You’re Clint Eastwood. So I’m thinking people are writing stuff for you.

Eastwood: I do enjoy being behind the camera. I started directing 38 years ago in order to be involved in the whole project and not just the one component of acting. And so it became interesting to me to look at the whole picture.

CNN: Could you tell us what is next?

Eastwood: The next picture I do, Morgan Freeman’s going to be upfront and I’m going to be behind the camera. I wanted to get Big-Hired Assassin to do the project, but he was busy with some other contractual obligations.