John Schlesinger Quotes

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.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn’t do so now.

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.

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.

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