Kaufman was fired by producer Bob Daley under Eastwood's command, resulting in a fine reported to be around $ 60, 000 ( US $ in dollars ) from the Directors Guild of America — who subsequently passed new legislation reserving the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging and replacing a director.

On October 24, 1975, Kaufman was fired at Eastwood's command by producer Bob Daley.

Kaufman had commenced directing The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ) but was notoriously fired under Clint Eastwood's command by producer Bob Daley due to strong disagreements between the two.

Ironically, Eastwood's replacement of Philip Kaufman on The Outlaw Josey Wales ( and the consequent need to handle post-production on that film ) left Eastwood without enough time to prepare himself to direct The Enforcer.

According to Eastwood's official biography, a man named Chuck Hill was instrumental in securing employment for Eastwood at Universal ; Hill, who had contacts in Hollywood, managed to sneak Eastwood into one of Universal's studios, where he showed him to cameraman Irving Glassberg.

Glassberg arranged for Eastwood to have an audition with Arthur Lubin who, although impressed with Eastwood's appearance and frame, initially questioned his acting skills, remarking, " He was quite amateurish.

Time magazine drew attention to the film's wooden acting, especially on the part of Eastwood, though a few critics such as Vincent Canby and Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Eastwood's coolness in playing the tall, lone stranger.

Using money earned from the Dollars trilogy, accountant and Eastwood advisor Irving Leonard helped establish Eastwood's own production company, Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwood's property in Monterey County, California.

Jennings Lang arranged for Eastwood to meet Don Siegel, a Universal contract director who later became Eastwood's close friend, forming a partnership that would last more than ten years and produce five films.

A number of critics thought Eastwood's directing was " as derivative as it was expressive ", with Arthur Knight of the Saturday Review remarking that Eastwood had " absorbed the approaches of Siegel and Leone and fused them with his own paranoid vision of society ".

Eastwood has cited Bronco Billy as being one of the most relaxed shoots of his career and biographer Richard Schickel has argued that Bronco Billy is Eastwood's most self-referential character.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that film was " the best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while ", and praised Eastwood's directing and the way he intricately juxtaposes the old West and the new.

Jazz has played an important role in Eastwood's life from a young age and, although he never made it as a professional musician, he passed on the influence to his son Kyle Eastwood, a successful jazz bassist and composer.

Eastwood has his own Warner Bros. Records-distributed imprint Malpaso Records, as part of his deal with Warner Brothers, which has released all of the scores of Eastwood's films from The Bridges of Madison County onward.

During a group appearance by the cast on television's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Leno ran a brief clip from Garner and Eastwood's lengthy saloon fistfight during Eastwood's Maverick appearance in " Duel at Sundown " over forty years earlier ; Tommy Lee Jones and Eastwood also stage a brief bar brawl in Space Cowboys.

The street is included in a car chase sequence in Clint Eastwood's crime drama Magnum Force ( 1973 ) starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, and David Soul.

Leone reportedly took to Eastwood's distinctive style quickly and commented that, " I like Clint Eastwood because he has only two facial expressions: one with the hat, and one without it.

In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors such as Joe Dante ( Gremlins, Small Soldiers, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace ), Robert Zemeckis ( the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit ), Brian Levant ( the Flintstones duology ), Matthew Robbins (* batteries not included ), Penelope Spheeris ( the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals ), Brad Silberling ( Casper ), Don Bluth ( An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), Clint Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Hereafter-except for the last named the Amblin logo does not appear on Eastwood's films, or on Schindler's List & True Grit ), Gil Kenan ( Monster House ), Martin Campbell ( The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro ), Richard Donner ( The Goonies ), Jan de Bont ( Twister ), Barry Sonnenfeld ( the Men in Black trilogy ), Martin Scorsese ( Cape Fear ), Joe Johnston ( Jurassic Park III ), J. J. Abrams ( Super 8 ), The Coen Brothers ( True Grit ), and Simon Wells ( An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and We're Back!

The film's protagonist, an unconventional ronin played by Toshirō Mifune, bears a striking resemblance to Eastwood's character: both are quiet, gruff, eccentric strangers with a strong but unorthodox sense of justice and extraordinary proficiency with a particular weapon ( in Mifune's case, a katana ; for Eastwood, a revolver ).

After the screenplay was finished Hickman visited Eastwood's Carmel restaurant, The Hog's Breath Inn, and approached Eastwood's business partner, Paul Lippman, asking if he would give their effort to Eastwood.

Both Eastwood and director Don Siegel felt that an ending more faithful to that of the book would be a stronger anti-war statement, however, and the ending was altered so that Eastwood's character would be killed.

It was with Clint Eastwood that McKinney would become most associated, becoming part of Eastwood's stock company after they worked together in Michael Cimino's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, in which McKinney played a character called Crazy Driver.

Clint Eastwood directed and starred in a 1976 film adaptation of Josey Wales, retitled The Outlaw Josey Wales after the book was sent to his offices by Carter as an unsolicited submission and Eastwood's partner read and put his support behind it.

Dirty Harry has been described as being arguably Eastwood's most memorable character, and the film has been credited with inventing the " loose-cannon cop " genre.

Although a number of critics praised Eastwood's performance as Dirty Harry, such as Jay Cocks of Time magazine who described him as " giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character ", the film was also widely criticized and accused of being fascistic.

Hereafter received mixed reviews from critics, with the consensus at Rotten Tomatoes being, " Despite a thought-provoking premise and Clint Eastwood's typical flair as director, Hereafter fails to generate much compelling drama, straddling the line between poignant sentimentality and hokey tedium.

One of the first films about a fan being disturbingly obsessed with their idol was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut film, Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), about a California disc jockey pursued by a disturbed female listener ( Jessica Walter ).

In Yojimbo, the protagonist defeats a man who carries a gun, while he carries only a knife and a sword ; in the equivalent scene in Fistful, Eastwood's pistol-wielding character survives being shot by a rifle by hiding an iron plate under his clothes to serve as a shield against bullets.

When the stadium was being built in the 1960s, Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns were very popular in Greece, and the stadium's nickname is a reference to Eastwood's 1965 film For a Few Dollars More ( which had the Greek title Duel in El Paso ), as the stadium's backdrop reminded people of the scenery in the movie.

Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven also take up Peckinpah's themes of the dangers of revenge, the nature of human violence, and men seeking to be honorable in dishonorable surroundings.

In late 1963, Eastwood's co-star on Rawhide, Eric Fleming, rejected an offer to star in an Italian-made western called A Fistful of Dollars, to be directed in a remote region of Spain by the then relatively unknown Sergio Leone.

He usually avoids actors ' rehearsing and prefers most scenes to be completed on the first take ; Eastwood's rapid filmmaking has been compared to Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and the Coen brothers.

" Interviewers Richard Thompson and Tim Hunter note that Eastwood's films are " superbly paced: unhurried ; cool ; and a strong sense of real time, regardless of the speed of the narrative " while Ric Gentry considers Eastwood's pacing to be " unrushed and relaxed ".

Many said this was to be Eastwood's last film as director and actor, but he chose to keep directing and he quit acting in his own films with the 2008 film Gran Torino.

It would be widely screened in France later and is considered one of Eastwood's finest works by the French.

* In Mr Eastwood's Adventure, Anthony Eastwood misquotes from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam when he states " Tomorrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's ten thousand years ".

A reprise may be expressed in narrative: at the beginning and the end of the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood's character shoots the noose to save his partner from hanging.

A clear example of a popular American phrase that has been adopted by people familiar with both cultures would be Clint Eastwood's famous quote " Make my day.

The film, culminating in a shootout on Alcatraz island, was considerably shorter than the previous Dirty Harry films at 95 minutes, but was a major commercial success grossing $ 100 million ( US $ in dollars ) worldwide to become Eastwood's highest-grossing film to date.

With a production cost of $ 20 million, ( US $ in dollars ) it was Eastwood's highest budget film to date.

" The film was a box office failure, earning less than half its $ 55 million ( US $ in dollars ) budget and was Eastwood's worst-performing film of the 1990s aside from White Hunter Black Heart, which had a limited release.

" The film grossed more than $ 90 million in its United States release, more than Eastwood's two previous films combined.

Gran Torino eventually grossed over $ 268 million ( US $ in dollars ) in theaters worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of Eastwood's career so far ( without adjustment for inflation ).

" The film grossed over $ 90 million in its United States release, more than Eastwood's two previous films — True Crime and Absolute Power — combined.

The film was eventually shot in 52 days for $ 14. 4 million dollars, not counting Eastwood's fee, although in interviews Eastwood sometimes said the film only cost $ 9 million to make.