- [Cal] So do you know, basically,
how this interview works?
So, it's all about wisdom.
Wisdom in your own words.
- [Clint] I was taller than
most kids in my classes
and also, I was a shy kid,
I wasn't a guy looking
to be aggressive or anything.
But we moved all the time,
Redding, and then Sacramento,
and then Pacific Palisades,
Hayward, Niles, Oakland,
and so we were constantly on the road.
So I was always the new guy
in school, so they thought,
who's this big gangly guy,
here, we gotta take him on.
You know, everybody's talking about, now,
today, how to handle bullies.
Of course, we're living
in sort of a more of a
pussy generation now, where
everybody's kinda going,
well, how do we handle it psychologically.
But in those days, you just say,
"Hey shut up!"
(laughing)
and you punch the guy back if a guy
swung at you or something.
(Cal laughing)
You just kinda duked it
out and got it over with.
Then, after that, the
guy usually, at least,
they respected you for fighting back,
and so they'd leave
you alone from then on.
Sensitivity training
was not part of the act.
(Cal laughing)
There's something fantasy-like about being
an individual fighting
bad guys and the elements
in a more simpler time when there was
no organized law and stuff.
I think it's a fantasy that people had.
I remember the first year that picture,
"Sudden Impact", came out, and I was
playing in a golf tournament.
Some gal hired a plane
to go tow a big banner,
"Clint, Make My Day" while
we're out there playing,
and everybody in the crowd
was going, "Hey, make my day"
- Oh man.
(Cal laughing)
- [Clint] And I thought,
"Jesus, what did we start here?"
The writer had written that,
"Go ahead. Make my day" in there, I said,
"Mmm, that's the line
that will stick with us."
Make my day was just so simple,
"Go ahead. Make my day" you know.
