After Clint Eastwood called a new interview with him "phony," the journalist behind the piece says it's aggregated from quotes he gave to the HFPA over many years.

An earlier version of this article was published on June 2. It has been updated with statements from the interview’s author and publisher.

Eastwood, 95, accused a small Austrian publication of running a “phony” Q. and A. with him. It turns out the quotes were aggregated from previous interviews.