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 Not true there was a cabal preventing Orson [Orson Welles] from making more films. He simply never fulfilled himself after that magnificent start, His own fault - lack of self-discipline. My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you`ve got to be a filmmaker.
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I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That`s very important.
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A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don`t include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.
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You can`t tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
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As I`ve always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you`ve done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
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The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I`ve ever made.
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You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn`t come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.
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I`ve always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.
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You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
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Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
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Trivia
He has a son, Robert E. Wise, and a step-daughter, Pamela Rosenberg. He has one granddaughter.
In preparation for "I want to live" in which Susan Hayward is executed, he actually attended a real execution.
2005: Retrospective at the 53rd San Sebastián International Film Festival in Spain.
Interviewed in Tom Weaver`s "It Came from Weaver Five" (McFarland & Co., 1996).
He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
Only three times in Academy Award history have director-collaborators been nominated for Best Directing Oscars: Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007). (Wise/Robbins and the Coens actually won the award).
Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996).
When he and Jerome Robbins won the Best Director Oscar in 1962 for West Side Story (1961), it was the first time that a directing Oscar was shared among collaborators.
1985-1988: President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
1992: He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, DC.
Agreed to direct The Sound of Music (1965) after it had been abandoned by William Wyler on the condition that 20th Century-Fox agree to finance The Sand Pebbles (1966). Wise, who also produced the musical, won his second Best Director Oscar and the Best Picture Oscar. The next year, "The Sand Pebbles" was nominated for Best Picture and Wise was awarded the Irving Thalberg Award, the highest honor for producers.
1998: Received the American Film Institute Life Achievement award.
2005: Celebrated his 91st birthday the weekend prior to his death.
Was the last surviving crew member of Citizen Kane (1941).
1982: Awarded honorary membership in the Society of Operating Cameramen (SOC).
1987: He accepted the Oscar for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" on behalf of Paul Newman, who wasn`t present at the awards ceremony.
Directed nine different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Nina Foch, Susan Hayward, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Julie Andrews, Peggy Wood, Steve McQueen, Mako, and Daniel Massey. Hayward, Moreno and Chakiris won Oscars.
1971-75: President of the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
Was an avid fan of commercial Indian cinema.
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