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...crew with his wicked John Wayne impersonation. When Gene Hackman kicked the hell out of him in their first saloon encounter, the script called for Hackman to stride over to the bar and pour a drink. From his position on the floor, where he was miming grievous hurt, Eastwood didn't call cut. Instead he groaned, "Pour one of those...
...quick to spread the credit for his success to a loyal and veteran production crew. His wardrobe man, Glenn Wright, has been with him since Rawhide in the early '60s. Cameraman Jack Green has worked on 18 Eastwood films, and production designer Henry Bumstead has been on board for two decades. "Henry Bumstead likes to say that I take the bullsout of moviemaking. It's pros like Henry who do that for me," says Eastwood. "All I'm doing is encouraging them...
...Eastwood plans his productions like military campaigns and compares his role to that of an officer in combat. "Making a film takes on a life of its own," he says. "You guide that life along like a platoon leader, getting everybody kind of enthused to charge the hill." To a relative newcomer like actress Frances Fisher, who plays the prostitute Strawberry Alice in Unforgiven and is Eastwood's current companion, it all seems seamless. "He is the most confident director I have ever seen. He kind of glides through it all." Distractions are kept to a minimum and posturing discouraged...
...want to intellectualize it too much," Eastwood says of his preference for keeping rehearsals to a minimum and putting the first take in the can. As a result, Eastwood films are delivered under budget and ahead of schedule. "He gets the most out of a dollar spent," says Warner Bros. chairman Bob Daly. "Ninety-five percent of his movies are hugely profitable." Eastwood says producing appeals to his practical side. "I like to ask myself, 'What is the best way we can do this without slighting the film...
...Eastwood developed his prudence as a child of the Depression. His family roamed Northern California and the Northwest as his father searched for work. The determination of the father shaped the son's bedrock respect for honest labor. There are no exceptions. Of the potential career of his 21-year-old daughter Alison as an actress, Eastwood says, "She has to decide if she wants to work...