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Ted Kotcheff
Canadian
Director
About the author
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
#Film
#Vision
#First
When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
#Want
#Popular
#Sense
#Writer
#Audiences
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
#Canada
I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
#American
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
#Being
#Reputation
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
#Possession
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
#Film
#Integrity
I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
Ted Kotcheff,
Canadian
Director
#Work
#Freedom
#Television