Ken Adam Quotes

Ken Adam — German Designer born on February 05, 1921,

Sir Kenneth Hugo "Ken" Adam, OBE is a German-born British motion picture production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s... (wikipedia)

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.