Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979-1983 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441165862)

Clint Eastwood has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer. These newly discovered conversations with legendary journalist Paul Nelson return us to a point when, still acting in other people's films, Eastwood was honing his directorial craft on a series of inexpensive films that he brought in under budget and ahead of schedule. Operating largely beneath the critical radar, he made his movies swiftly and inexpensively. Few of his critics then could have predicted that Eastwood the actor and director would ever be taken as seriously as he is today. But Paul Nelson did.

The interviews were conducted from 1979 through 1983. Eastwood talks openly and without illusions about his early career as an actor, old Hollywood, and his formative years as a director, his influence and what he learned along the way as an actor-lessons that helped him become the director he is today. Conversations with Clint provides a fresh and vivid perspective on the life and work of this most American of movie icons.

Author: Kevin Avery
ISBN-10: 144116586X
ISBN-13: 9781441165862
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.62w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2011 pg. 9
Men's Journal 10/01/2011 pg. 38
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2011