Quotes by John Schlesinger - Page 1

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Extraordinary
Hollywood
Kind
Temporary
Place
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I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Cheeks
Has Beens
Tongue
Bad Thing
Cheek
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There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Actors
Certain
Improvising
Very Good
Good Who Like
Dustin Hoffman
Jackson
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Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Relationship
Actors
Agents
Managers
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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Attitude
Late
May
Sixties
Toward
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Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Daylight
Duration
World
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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 could be interpreted as antigay.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Sensibility
Positive Life Look
Interpreted
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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 scenes. So we put him on the film.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Adviser
Dinner
Dinner Party
Invited
Hustler
Scenes
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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 us look at each other with some surprise.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Berlin
Booing
Festivals
Film
Forget
Looks
Made
Never Forget
Screening
Surprise
Each
Ended
Festival
Film Festival
Look
Other
Some
Which
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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.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Approach
Faces
Littles
Subtlety
Symbolism
Best Face Your
Older
Grown
Perhaps
Tried
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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 trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Artist
Directors
Extraordinary
Organization
Trusted
Agreed
Believed
Director
His Way
Letting
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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 brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Brilliant
Jon
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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 were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Conscious
Cost
Film
Artists
Nearly
Number
Happen
Price
Reduce
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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 many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Done
Ideas
Lines
Perfectly Good
Scene
Perfectly
Picked
Script
Wreck
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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 be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.
John Schlesinger / Film Director
Disappointed
Performance
Seemed
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