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"Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick"

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Farrelly’s praise of Clint Eastwood reads less like auteur worship and more like a working director clocking another craftsman’s survival skills. The key word isn’t “masterpieces” (which feels like polite American canon-making); it’s “decisive.” In Hollywood, decisiveness is a form of power: it keeps schedules intact, budgets from ballooning, and crews from spiraling into endless second-guessing. Calling Eastwood someone who “makes up his mind real quick” is a compliment that lands in the language of set life, not film theory.

The subtext is a quiet rebuke of the industry’s fetish for tortured process. Directors are often mythologized as sensitive visionaries, but Farrelly is admiring a different archetype: the guy who shows up, knows what he wants, and moves on. Eastwood’s public persona - terse, stoic, no-nonsense - becomes a managerial ideal. It also carries a kind of masculine nostalgia: competence as charisma, certainty as style.

There’s context here in Farrelly’s own career, too. As a maker of broad, high-wire comedies, he’s lived in a world where momentum matters and overthinking kills the joke. Eastwood’s efficiency (famously few takes, minimal fuss) isn’t just a personality trait; it’s a production philosophy. “I just like everything I know about him” signals something else: Eastwood functions as a brand of reliability. In an ecosystem built on risk, decisiveness is the closest thing to a moral virtue.

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Farrelly, Bobby. (2026, January 16). Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/clint-eastwood-heres-a-guy-whos-been-involved-in-109533/

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Farrelly, Bobby. "Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/clint-eastwood-heres-a-guy-whos-been-involved-in-109533/.

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"Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/clint-eastwood-heres-a-guy-whos-been-involved-in-109533/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Bobby Farrelly (born June 17, 1958) is a Director from USA.

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