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December 11, 2004

Clint Eastwood interview

Clint Eastwood has defended scrappy frontier towns and hunted down San Francisco's dirtiest criminals. He's even taken a bullet for the president, but he's never had to face anything as difficult as the decision he must make in Million Dollar Baby. In an exclusive sit-down interview with Moviefone.com, Eastwood discusses the challenges of his latest film.

Peter Debruge: At first, Million Dollar Baby appears to be a straightforward genre movie, but it proves to be one of the most complex films you've ever made. Can you describe the challenges of tackling a story like this?
Clint Eastwood: It wasn't hard to make, but it was just hard to get the studio interested. It seems nowadays everyone's so interested in sequels, remakes, et cetera, it's hard to do dramas, character studies or anything. They just don't get them off the paper.

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