The Austrian Kurier newspaper, which is not well known to the international public, can boast of the interview with Clint Eastwood. The problem: What the newspaper writes was in the imagination of the author, according to the American actor and director who says he has not interviewed in recent weeks.

“To put things in their place,” he said in a statement posted Monday night to Tuesday on the American, specialized Deadline website. “I never interviewed an Austrian newspaper called Kurier and this interview is completely false,” the 95 -year -old creator added.

The director of “Juror No 2”, of his latest film, appears angry with what the newspaper attributes to him in the leaflet of last Friday, and in particular the “views” he is supposed to have expressed about the evolution of cinema in recent years.

According to Kurier, Eastwood is nostalgic for “the good old days, when screenwriters made films such as Casablanca, in the small fancies of studios”. He also allegedly said that “we live in the age of remakes and Franks” and urged his colleagues to “do something new or otherwise stay at home.”

This “advice” has taken on a large dimension to the US media and social media websites over the weekend.

Kurier’s management, based in Vienna, told the French agency that it was “informed of the accusation” of Eastwood just this morning and “examines the facts”.

“It will take a while, taking into account the time difference with the US” but the newspaper promised that “it will make a statement as soon as possible.”

Born in 1930, Clint Eastwood has more than 100 films, some of which have been honored with the most important film industry awards, such as 1993’s “Unforgivable” and 2005’s “Million Dollar Baby” that won the Oscars and Best Film Oscars.