John Schlesinger Quotes

John Schlesinger — British Director born on February 16, 1925, died on July 25, 2003

John Richard Schlesinger, CBE was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

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.

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

John Schlesinger Quotes

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