Gran Torino is out on release soon and I am looking forward to it. I have been an Eastwood fan for as long as I have been an adult. By all accounts Gran Torino is a great movie and has been doing great box-office in America.

Over at Esquire, they have interviewed Clint Eastwood about life, the movies and everything, it is a short but thought-provoking interview. It reminds me of Nelson Riddle, the famous musical arranger, being interviewed about working with Frank Sinatra. Riddle was asked how one worked with a genius like Sinatra. Riddle’s answer was that he “set up the arrangment and got out of the way”. This is the approach that Cal Fussman takes with Clint Eastwood, asking the question and just letting the good man talk.

The article is here