Clint Eastwood isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
In a recent sitdown with Austria-based publication Kurier (via Reuters), Eastwood, who turns 95 on Saturday, shared that he is currently in pre-production for his next film. He added that fans don’t have to worry about his retirement “for a long time.”
“There’s no reason why a man can’t get better with age,” Eastwood said. “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.”
When asked about the current state of film, the “Unforgiven” director said he missed the days when theaters weren’t overbooked with remakes, sequels and adaptations of existing IP.
“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.”
Eastwood went on to say that his upbringing in the “old system” of Hollywood forced him to constantly evolve as an artist and be vigilant for the next great movie idea.
“As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year,” Eastwood explained. “And that’s why I’ll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I’m truly senile.”
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