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.

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.”

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.

Here is the list of Clint Eastwood's movies:

1. Play Misty for Me
2. The Beguiled: The Storyteller
3. Breezy
4. High Plains Drifter
5. The Eiger Sanction
6. The Outlaw Josey Wales
7. The Gauntlet
8. Bronco Billy
9. Firefox
10. Honkytonk Man
11. Sudden Impact
12. Pale Rider
13. Heartbreak Ridge
14. Bird
15. The Rookie
16. White Hunter Black Heart
17. Unforgiven
18. A Perfect World
19. The Bridges of Madison County
20. Absolute Power
21. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
22. True Crime
23. Space Cowboys
24. Blood Work
25. Mystic River
26. Million Dollar Baby
27. Flags of Our Fathers
28. Letters from Iwo Jima
29. Changeling
30. Gran Torino
31. Invictus
32. Hereafter
33. J. Edgar
34. The Blues: Piano Blues
35. Jersey Boys
36. American Sniper
37. Amazing Stories
38. Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
39. Clint Eastwood: Director
40. The Mule
41. Richard Jewell
42. Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
43. Changeling (duplicate)
44. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
45. Dirty Harry
46. The Enforcer
47. The 15:17 to Paris
48. Sully
49. Hang 'Em High
50. Coogan's Bluff
51. A Fistful of Dollars
52. Ambush at Cimarron Pass
53. Lafayette Escadrille
54. Joe Kidd
55. Coogan's Bluff (duplicate)
56. Where Eagles Dare
57. For a Few Dollars More
58. Paint Your Wagon
59. Kelly's Heroes
60. The Beguiled
61. Escape from Alcatraz
62. Every Which Way But Loose
63. Tightrope
64. City Heat
65. The Dead Pool
66. Pink Cadillac
67. In the Line of Fire
68. Casper
69. Kurosawa's Way
70. Trouble with the Curve
71. Two Mules for Sister Sara
72. Away All Boats
73. Star in the Dust
74. Francis in the Navy
75. Lady Godiva of Coventry
76. Revenge of the Creature
77. Tarantula
78. Never Say Goodbye