John Schlesinger Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous John Schlesinger quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an English director who passed away on 25 July, 2003.
“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.”
“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.”
“Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.”
“That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.”
“Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.”
“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.”
“I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.”
“There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.”
“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.”
“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.”
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