Clint Eastwood continues to direct first rate films, and don’t expect the filmmaker/actor to retire anytime soon.  The 80-year-old is still a hungry artist, and he learned from two of Hollywood’s most revered filmmakers that staying creatively idle is not the best alternative.  “I knew Frank Capra a little bit, and I spent some time with him…And he was always so bright, and I remember thinking, `why isn’t this guy working,’” said Eastwood. “I also knew Billy Wilder somewhat, and he had actually stopped working in his ’60s, and I thought, `that’s amazing, here’s a guy who is bright and lived well into his 90s and didn’t work.  I never could figure that. I just figured your best years should be at a point where you absorbed all this knowledge.  There is a Portugese director (Manoel de Oliveira) who is still making films at over 100 years at over 100 years old, and I plan to do the same thing.”  Eastwood will next helm the biopic Hoover, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to play FBI director  J. Edgar Hoover. Hereafter, which stars Matt Damon and Bryce Dallas Howard, opens nationwide Friday.

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