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John Schlesinger

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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Donna Grant

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

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Donna Grant

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

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Donna Grant

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

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Donna Grant

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

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Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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Donna Grant

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

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Donna Grant

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

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Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Donna Grant

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

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John Schlesinger
"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."

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John Schlesinger
"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."

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

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John Schlesinger
"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."

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John Schlesinger
"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."

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John Schlesinger
"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."

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John Schlesinger
"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."

Film

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

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John Schlesinger
"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."

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John Schlesinger
"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."

Film

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