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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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Akshay Vasu

"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."

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Akshay Vasu

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

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Akshay Vasu

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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Akshay Vasu

"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

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Akshay Vasu

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

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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
"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."

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

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

Actor

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

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