 Clint Eastwood (qv) said at the time that this would be the last  movie that he would both act in and direct, but he went on to appear  in all of the movies he has since directed, except  _Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)_ (qv),  _Mystic River (2003)_ (qv),  _Flags of our Fathers (2006)_ (qv) and Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)_ (qv).