Congratulations to Morgan Freeman on his recognition for lifetime achievement at the 2018 Screen Actor's Guild Awards!
Here is his A-typical acceptance speech.
A Stanley Jaffe Production
Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.
EMI Films
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Barry Jenner was born January 14, 1941 and raised in North Philadelphia near Connie Mack Stadium. His father was a factory worker and his mother was a part time waitress and homemaker. An only child, Barry graduated from Lincoln High School in Philadelphia and West Chester State College in Pennsylvania. His major was Political Science with a minor in American History.
This is the second novel you've adapted. What brought you back to that genre?
quote-leftA great novelist presents a gallery of characters and situations and places with such an extraordinary sense of detail that, if you feel that it is something that you could interpret and give cinematic life to, it's difficult to resist the gift that's been given to you. It's that balance of trying to respect and honour the spirit of their work, but also feeling free to reinvent and to find a way of reinterpreting it, which makes the process of adaptation organic and urgent. I think a film adaptation needs to have a sense of urgency: there's nothing more boring to me than illustrating a book. With Exotica that I'd gone as far as I could with a certain set of obsessions and concerns, and that film seemed to be the summation of a certain type of film that I was making up to that point.
It took you a very long time to get the money to make this film, and there were a lot of times when it looked like it wouldn't get made. Are you glad you waited?
Rollins-Joffe Productions
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
Just when you finally appeared to have left the Hitchcock comparisons behind, what drew you back to doing a thriller?
quote-leftThe thing you can determine from me and my career is that I never gave a damn what anybody thought. I always did what I thought was best for myself, and if anyone else thought it was like Hitchcock, too bad! I was there, basically, to learn something, or else I was interested in a piece of material. And if I wanted to make that kind of movie and everybody else thought it wasn't the right thing for me to be doing, or if they had some kind of comment about it, it never made any difference to me. As long as I thought I could get the movie made, I didn't care.
What do you think about this phone, first of all?
It's kind of interesting, isn't it? I mean, it's not as revealing as one might have thought. And people are just getting used to the incredible mobility that a remote phone gives you, moving around, doing stuff while you're talking on the phone, so I wonder whether this is going against the momentum of that freedom.
Chartoff-Winkler Productions
A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
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!
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
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.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
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.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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!
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
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 never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
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!
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.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
