The Zanuck Company
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
United Artists, Star Partners II, Ltd., Barris Industries, Guber-Peters Company
Hemdale Film Corporation, Recorded Picture Company
The story of the final Emperor of China.
Hemdale Film Corporation
A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Mirage Enterprises
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
The Saul Zaentz Company
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporary composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Paramount Pictures
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.
Goldcrest Films, International Film Investors, National Film Development Corporation of India, Indo-British Films
Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
Allied Stars Ltd., Goldcrest Films, Enigma Productions, The Ladd Company
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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!
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
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…
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
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.
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!
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
