"Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face,……" — John Schlesinger
"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 thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety."
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14 Quotes by John Schlesinger
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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…
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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
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Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
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We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take…
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Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
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I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
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No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting…
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There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
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I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to…
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I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when…
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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be…
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I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was…
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which…
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I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
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