More of Director’s Cut
MORE OF – Let’s have more of Director’s Cut, a continuation of yesterday’s Highspeed. Barbra Streisand’s mother once scolded me for not picking her daughter to star in my film “Saint Joan.” I choose another unknown, Jean Seberg. So I told the lady, “Look at Jean Seberg’s career. You should thank me for not picking your Barbra. – Otto Preminger.
Don’t asked me when is (Clint) Eastwood going to do a comedy. Maybe he has done a comedy. If you see his movies and you are not his fan, then maybe is a comedy. – Sergio Leone.
Kim Novak has been seriously hurt by men. Unlike Marilyn, she survived. But her pain has also survived, and she no longer trusts men, particularly if they want to become or seem to be getting intimate. So I have to be careful to remain fatherly and detached when guiding her through her roles. In “The Legend of Lyla Clare” she plays two roles, two actresses, one of them a late star, legend in the Dietrich – Garbo persona who is sapphic. I have no trouble ignoring Kim’s beauty, because I just think of her as being sapphic, like Lylah. – Robert Aldrich.
Steven Spielberg always wanted to be a little boy when he grew up. – Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
The King of box-office is a boy forever. – Angie Dickinson on Steven Spielberg. (Ron Howard) directed me in some TV movie. He was good. Don’t let his TV shows (“The Andy Griffith Show” and “Happy Days”) fool you. And he was respectful, which is almost as important as being good. – Bette Davis.
I’d rather leave directing to the directors. I’d find it distracting to be directed by a Paul Newman. Costarring with him is fine. But I like my directors to be father figures. If
Paul directed me, I’d be committing mental incest. – Ava Gardner. It is good working with Nastassja Kinski. She’s young and new, and younger actresses are more reliable than older ones. – Roman Polanski. John Wayne is a son of a bitch, but he’s the sort of son of a bitch I like. Montgomery Clift’s also a son of as bitch. But I don’t like him. – Howard Hawks.