Conversations with Clint : Paul Nelson's lost interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979 to 1983

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. Foreword......Page 12 Filmography......Page 16 The Good, the Bad .........Page 26 Editor’s Note......Page 32 The Telephone Call......Page 34 The Conversations......Page 40 Flashback......Page 248 Afterword......Page 256 Acknowledgments......Page 258 Source Materials......Page 260 About the Authors......Page 262 Index......Page 264 Includes interviews between legendary "Rolling Stone" journalist Paul Nelson and Clint Eastwood who has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer. Introduction The good, the bad The telephone call January 1983 The conversations October 1979 to October 1983 Flashback December 1979 Afterword.