John Schlesinger

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#hollywood #kind #place #temporary

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

#brilliant #easy #feeling #felt #film

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

#because #been #dinner #dinner party #film

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

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I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing. ↗

— John Schlesinger

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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

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Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#managers #oh #problem #relationship #sometimes

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

#artists #because #conscious #cost #film

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

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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

#late #may #now #objects #sixties