Clint Eastwood Bemoans “Era Of Remakes And Franchises,” Urges Filmmakers To “Do Something New Or Stay At Home”

After 4 Oscar wins, veteran filmmaker Clint Eastwood has picked up some nuggets of knowledge to impart on his colleagues.

The commemorated actor and director not too long ago gave an interview to Austrian newspaper Kurier, in keeping with Reuters, urging fellow filmmakers to get a hold of authentic concepts and bemoaning the “era of remakes and franchises.”

“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,” the Juror #2 director mentioned. “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.”

The 95-year-old in the back of Oscar winners like Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, either one of which he additionally starred in, added within the interview that he has no ideas of retiring and deliberate to stay operating “for a long time yet.”

When requested how he stays vigorous, he spoke back, “There’s no reason why a man can’t get better with age. 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.”

Eastwood added that all through his half-century-long profession, he has been driven to evolve, which enabled him to pick out up new abilities: “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, and that’s why I’ll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I’m truly senile.”