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.
About Ted Kotcheff
William Theodore Kotcheffis a Canadian director and producer of film and television. He is known for directing such films as the seminal Australian New Wave picture Wake in Frightand Joshua Then and Now (1985), the original Rambo film First Blood (1982), and the comedies Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), North Dallas Forty (1979), and Weekend at Bernie’s (1989).
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I’ve never quite understood.
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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.
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I’m not an easygoing guy as a director.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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When you’re actually making the film, you’re constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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