Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint

A guy sits alone in a theater. He's young and he's scared. He doesn't know what he's going to do with his life. He wishes he could be self-sufficient, like the man he sees up there on the screen, somebody who can look out for himself, solve his own problems. I do the kind of roles I'd like to see if I were still digging swimming pools and wanted to escape my problems.

—Clint Eastwood

I think there's a parallel in my career and Clint's. We both have a...