Quotes by Richard D. Zanuck - Page 1

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Important
Scripts
Stories
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These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Best Times
Lasts
Years
Best Time
Last Few Years
Tim
Tim Burton
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I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Missing
Tough Times
Years
Daisy
Tough Time
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The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Copies
Damage
Sound
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'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Damage
Offenders
Sound Of Music
Copy
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These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Good Old Days
Guy
Old Days
Pool
Ready
Way
Now
Why
Days
Old
Working
Still
Good Way Always
Right
Sit
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It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Dramatic
Newman
Pieces
Stars
Verdict
Would Be
Paul
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Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Quality
Difficult
Difficult Things
May
Stars
Understand
Star
Describe
Rest
Himself
Separates
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I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Executives
Ideas
Studios
Successful
Territory
Thinking
Fresh
Remake
Safer
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It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Running
Big Shoes
Eyebrows
Raised
Shoes
Fill
Fox
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Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Differences
Dramatic Situations
Two
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'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Dramatic
Complaint
More People
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A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Quality
Athlete
Convincing
Stars
Athletes
Camera
Good-Looking
Performer
Presence
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In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Exposed
Perception
Special
Stars
Studios
Movie Stars
Perceived
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I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Vacation
Department
Papers
Raised
School
Selling
Seven
Summer
Years
Fox
Practically
Old-Timer
Studio
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I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Comforting
Escapism
Human Nature
Smarter
Thinking
Pretend
Project
Richer
Ultimately
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When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Blood
Critics
Realizing
Shooting
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Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Technology
Music Industry
Piracy
Sides
Way
Alice
Avatar
Big Thing
Changing
Fast
Spreads
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The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.
Richard D. Zanuck / Film Producer
Technology
Birth
Fundamentals
Mindless
Remains
Taken
Thinking
Basis
Unfortunately
Good Picture
Rule
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