Mark Rydell Quotes

• I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

  Mark Rydell

  Weekend, Long, Competition

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• The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumpt

  Mark Rydell

  Art, Drama, Lying

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• I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

  Mark Rydell

  Agents, Als, Knows

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• There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

  Mark Rydell

  Independent, Talking, Years

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• No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

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  Careers, Important, Genius

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• It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

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  Fun, Ideas, Needs

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• There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

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  Technology, Aggravation, Industrialization

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• Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

  Mark Rydell

  Stars, Talking, Careers

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• It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

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  Interesting, Directors, Actors

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• Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

  Mark Rydell

  Directors, Admire, Maverick

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• Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

  Mark Rydell

  Friday, Night, Thinking

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• It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

  Mark Rydell

  Independent, Directors, Substance

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