Clint Eastwood thinks 'nice fella' Obama needs proper advisers

Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood says he is not satisfied with President Barack Obama's job.

"You know, I think he''''s a nice fella, and I enjoyed watching him come along. And I enjoyed his watching him campaign and win the job. But I''''m not a fan of what he''''s doing at the moment," CBS News quoted him as saying.

He said he doesn''''t think the president has surrounded himself with the proper advisers and he believes Mr. Obama is not "willing to take a chance on losing."

The actor- who once served as mayor of Carmel, Calif - spoke about his experience as a politician and his thought on the present position of the country.

The 80-year-old director said he has no intention of going back into politics but he said the country was "in a very strange period right now, one of the strangest I can remember in my lifetime. "

The country is facing serious financial problems, he said, but it "seems like people are becoming political for some sort of notoriety, and not for d-- for really accomplishing anything."

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I am tired of myself on screen

Clint Eastwood has insisted that he has "become tired" of seeing himself in movies.

The actor/director, who will turn 80 next week, has admitted that he prefers to stay behind the scenes but has claimed that doesn't mean he will quit acting.

In an interview with Tele 5 TV, he said: "I leave that to younger actors now. I'm not a prize fighter who has to capture another victory. Since I worked as a director for the first time on Play Misty For Me in 1970 I've become tired of seeing myself on the big screen. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop acting, though."

Eastwood added: "If you've done as many films as I have you stop looking back, you're only going forwards.

"As a director it's important to me to try new things once in a while. And as an actor, if a film is finished you can't change it and you have to leave it to other people to judge your work."

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