Stephanie Ezrol Jan 12, 2010:

@Sarah. Do you think "qui croisent ses sensations" might mean who believed in his very sucessful films which had become a sensation, or something like that. I ask because I think the answer to your question is dependent on the meaning of the "senation" part of the sentence.

Stephanie Ezrol Jan 12, 2010:

I think it means that he had been in a mode of doing what the major studio's wanted, but in his 50's (the 1980's), he move more to his own more personal ideas about plot etal, as described in this section from the Wikpedia article. "Also during this time, he began working on smaller, more personal projects, first directing Bird (1988), a biopic starring Forest Whitaker as jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker, a genre of music that Eastwood has always been personally interested in. Eastwood received two Golden Globes—the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his lifelong contribution and the Best Director award for Bird, which also earned him a Golden Palm nomination at the Cannes Film Festival."