Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.
About Ronald Harwood
Sir Ronald Harwood was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresserand The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).
More quotes from Ronald Harwood
I went straight in. Fade in, one… whatever. He’s playing the piano in the radio station.
South African dramatist and playwright (1934-2020)
It’s a terrific… you can’t put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I’d love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.
South African dramatist and playwright (1934-2020)
No, I can’t write treatments, I think there’s a danger with treatments. That you… you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.
South African dramatist and playwright (1934-2020)
He’s very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don’t think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn’t see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.
South African dramatist and playwright (1934-2020)
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he’s a very good artist.
South African dramatist and playwright (1934-2020)
I mean he’s a very famous director… they’re not going to put their… and he’s very tough, he doesn’t like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.
South African dramatist and playwright (1934-2020)
Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.
South African dramatist and playwright (1934-2020)