How Clint Eastwood inspired me to write ‘Reagan’ for Hollywood
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Clint Eastwood told me the secret of his success on the set of “Space Cowboys” in 1999. It was my first studio movie, and he was gracious enough to let me hang around and watch him produce the script I’d co-written for him. For a newbie Hollywood writer, it was a life-changing experience, and every chance I got, I would ask the master filmmaker a question like this.
“Easy,” he shrugged, in typical Eastwoodian fashion. “Find the best people, give them a mission, then get out of their way so they can do the job.”
His advice was hauntingly familiar. Ronald Reagan famously lived by similar words:
‘REAGAN’ MOVIE BEATS BOX OFFICE EXPECTATIONS ON OPENING WEEKEND
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets
