Universal Pictures, The Bedford Falls Company
A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
John Getz was born and raised in the Mississippi River Valley of Northern Illinois and Iowa. His mother, who'd abandoned aspirations toward an acting career to raise four children, and his father, who thought Cole Porter was right about most things, imparted their love for music and theater. Getz's intention was to write and teach but a long stretch of college, with a Shakespeare teacher who was passionate on the subject and a theatre teacher whose pleasure in his work was palpable, waylaid him.
Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Tiger Moth Productions
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Len Lesser was born and raised in the East Bronx. His first brush with acting was at a local Community Center called Juvenile House. He was 16 and didn't tell anyone he was taking a "Dramatics Class" because: 'That was real sissy stuff in my tough neighborhood'; he tells us.
Icon Productions, The Ladd Company
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
Anne Gee Byrd grew up a cowgirl in Ohio and was introduced to acting at the University of Toledo playing straight woman to the comic ingenue. She married David Byrd at the Erie Playhouse and had seven years working, mostly together, in repertory theatres in the east. "We noticed that many of the best roles were going to what we then arrogantly referred to as 'half assed television stars' so we decided to come to L.A. and become same", She told us.
Wendy Finerman Productions
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.
Amblin Entertainment
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.
Malpaso Productions
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.
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.
