Tom Bower is truly the essence of the working actor. His many varied screen performances have rewarded him with a stable career in Hollywood. His tireless work with the Screen Actors Guild and in support of his fellow actor make him an example for all to follow.
You recently went to the Sundance Institute - what can you tell me about that program?
quote-leftRobert Redford started the Sundance Institute about 20 years ago to help foster the careers of up and coming directors and screenwriters. Recently they added a Composer's Lab to their curriculum. Like the filmmaker program, it was a fellowship - they only chose six people out of many applicants, so it was quite an honor to participate. We traveled to the Sundance resort in Utah, and studied for two weeks with a lot of great film composers. Carter Burwell came out, as did Shirley Walker, Mychael Danna, and George S. Clinton. We also got to meet that year's directing fellows - we were paired up with them, and scored the experimental short films that they shot for their program. It was all very much in a demo format - we were provided with a simple synth setup and had to crank it out in a week! It was a very inspiring program.
Bo Hopkins is uninhibited, colorful and disarmingly honest. He has carved a career in Hollywood with a talent and determination that has led him from parking cars to starring roles in television and films.
Bill Smitrovich began his professional career at the age of thirty-three, as a stage actor with Arthur Miller in the World Premiere of "American Clock" directed by Dan Sullivan, which went from The Spoleto Festival to Broadway.
Erin Connor, although not yet widely known in the U.S. truly fits the category of "Working Actor" to a "T". Born and bred near Byron Bay in Australia, Erin grew up on a tropical fruit farm with a menagerie of animals to look after. With a rural upbringing, Erin learnt early on the lessons earned by hard work and community.
Art Hindle, born Arthur Hindle on July 21, 1948, in Halifax to a Royal Canadian Navy father, Art's mother soon had him back in their home town of Toronto, Ontario. He grew up in the "Beaches" of Toronto a big fan of Elvis Presley and rock n' roll. Although shy as a child, he grew to be a rebellious and independent teenager.
Julie Dolan is a native San Fernando “Valley Girl” and began dance lessons at the age of 3 and acting and piano lessons at the age of 9. She attended California State University Northridge for a short time but her continued work in Television and Film kept her away from her studies.
James Morrison, filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, singer/songwriter and yoga teacher, was born in Utah and is a product of Alaska. He began his acting career as a clown and wire walker for the Carson and Barnes Wild Animal Circus and served his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre.
You never watch your films with an audience. Don't you miss hearing them scream?
quote-leftNo. I can hear them when I'm making the picture.
Do you feel that the American film remains the most vital cinema?
quote-leftWorldwide, yes. Because when we make films for the United States, we are automatically making them for all the world--because America is full of foreigners. It's a melting pot. Which brings us to another point. I don't know what they mean when they talk about "Hollywood" pictures. I say, "Where are they conceived?" Look at this room--you can't see out the windows. We might just as well be in a hotel room in London, or anywhere you like. So here is where we get it down on paper. Now where do we go? We go on location, perhaps; and then where do we work? We're inside on a stage, the big doors are closed, and we're down in a coal mine: we don't know what the weather is like outside. Again we don't know where we are--only within our film, within the thing we're making. That's why it's such nonsense to talk about locale. "Hollywood." That doesn't mean anything to me. If you say, "Why do you like working in Hollywood?" I would say, because I can get home at six o'clock for dinner.
Miguel Sandoval has appeared in over one hundred and sixty film and television roles, including the popular boxoffice hits "Jurassic Park", "Clear and Present Danger", "Do the Right Thing", "Get Shorty", and "Up Close and Personal".
He has guest starred on such television series as "Seinfeld", "Frasier", "Murder One", "Law and Order", "E.R.", "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her", and "The Crew".
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.
