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The speaker is saying that, apart from clear mistakes, repeated takes often look and feel the same to him. It suggests he sees little practical difference between an early take and many later ones. The quote also implies a focus on efficient, straightforward performance rather than endless repetition.
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Originally said in English.
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About Clint Eastwood
American actor and filmmaker
Clint Eastwood is an American actor and filmmaker, known for a screen career that made him a lasting cultural icon of masculinity. Born Clinton Eastwood Jr., he first found success in the Western television series Rawhide, then rose to international fame in the mid-1960s. He is especially associated with Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, where he played the “Man with No Name,” and with the Dirty Harry films, in which he portrayed Harry Callahan across the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, he was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and served for two years.
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