Clint Eastwood denied making comments to an Austrian newspaper where he was quoted criticizing filmmakers for their lack of originality, saying the entire interview was "phony."

Two days into his 95th year on Earth, Clint Eastwood is calling a recent interview purportedly with the Oscar winner “entirely phony.” Eastwood says he was never interviewed by the Austrian publication Kurier for a story that went viral over the weekend due to some firebrand comments made by someone other than Clint Eastwood.

I’ll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I’m truly senile,” says the celebrated director, currently in preproduction on his next film.