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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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"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."

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"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."

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"So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!"

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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

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"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."

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"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."

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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."

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"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."

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John Schlesinger
"Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay."

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

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

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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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"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 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."

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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
"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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