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John Richard Schlesinger was an English film and stage director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing frankly in provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films.
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About the John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger was an English film and stage director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing frankly in provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films.
Schlesinger started his career making British dramas A Kind of Lovingand was Oscar-nominated for Darlingand Sunday Bloody Sundayand Cold Comfort Farmin the 1970 Birthday Honours for services to film, and in 2002, he was made a BAFTA Fellow. Four of Schlesinger’s films are on the British Film Institute’s Top 100 British films.
14 Quotes by John Schlesinger
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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn’t do so now.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 2.
I’ve never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
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I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 4.
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.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 5.
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.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 6.
Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 7.
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.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 8.
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.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
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There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 10.
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.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 11.
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.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 12.
Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 13.
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.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)
- 14.
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I’ve done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
John SchlesingerEnglish film and stage director (1926-2003)