All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Selznick International Pictures
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife. - An unnamed naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine) is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married. The young woman is now the second "Mrs. de Winter."
I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: I don't know. The second: All my opinions on the subject are in my films. Among other things, I am an opponent of any separation of the various phases of the work. Such separation has an exclusively practical value. It is valuable for all those who participate in the work - except for the director, if he happens to be both author and director at once. To speak of directing as one of the phases in this work is to engage in a theoretical discussion which seems to me opposed to that unity of the whole to which every artist is committed during his work.
It was far from an auspicious debut. The first official press and industry screening of acclaimed British director Michael Apted's latest documentary, Inspirations, at the Toronto International Film Festival was plagued with projection problems. The framing was off, there was sound and then there was none. Some audience members joked that perhaps the hapless projectionist had been ingesting illicit substances when he should have been paying attention to the screen. And although Apted himself was not on hand to witness the unfortunate event, he heard all about it by the time our interview rolls around the following morning.
"You never really get a second chance," he sighs, clearly irked by the situation, "especially if it's a visual film."
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.
Although I saw many films before this, I recall the power that The Greatest Show on Earth held over me as a child. The sense of showmanship and the scope drawn into that one-dimensional screen captured my imagination. I recall that, at the time, it suggested the power of which the cinema was capable.
This (above), was one of those stunts where everything went wrong! It was a picture called "Honky Talk Freeway" directed by John Schlesinger. And the stunt team read like a "Who's Who" of Hollywood Stunt people!
The first time, I flew out of the car, it slid over the hill with me. I rolled down the hill while the car was right next to me. As the tire was sliding within inches of my face, I wondered if it could flip while sliding so fast and I would end up underneath it.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Published on Dec 14, 2017
Go behind the scenes of Clint Eastwood's The 15:17 to Paris
in theaters February 9.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
