John Schlesinger Quotes

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• I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made…
• That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
• Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
• We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that…
• Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
• I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
• No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They…
• Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and…
• There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
• I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street…
• I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to…
• Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it…
• I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a…
• Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they…

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