I just fell upon this interview with Clint Eastwood. I found it fucking hilarious, and I think he is probably right. Invictus is his new movie (in case you were wondering). Here is the interview (if you can imagine his voice from Gran Torino it makes it so much better)...
Why Invictus? Why now?
Eastwood: I'm not an objective party. But the world needs this kind of story nowadays. It's just everybody's so screwed up. Nobody knows where they're heading. It seems like our country's in kind of a morbid mood, because of the recession or whatever. I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.
What do you think they could learn?
Eastwood: About racial relationships and such. It just seems like we're making a lot of mistakes on this whole calling everybody racist. Everybody's calling everybody morons and nuts. We're becoming more juvenile as a nation. The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. People 50 years old acting like that. In Gran Torino, I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess (GQ).
Amazing.
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