Mark Rydell Quotes

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• The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when…
• Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out.…
• I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.
• Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
• There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
• It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!
• It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of…
• No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without…
• There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the…
• I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.
• It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for…
• Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was…
• It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because…
• He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes…
• He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are…
• It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's…
• It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he…
• Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for…

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