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It has been six years since the passing of Sarah Jones (Sept. 22, 1986 - Feb. 20, 2014). Her untimely death was the result of a Producer/Director and Production team's negligence in allowing a "Shot" to take precedence over human life and safety!
A letter from Richard Jones
Are you as fascinated by "Old Hollywood" as we are?
Here's a look at the Hollywood Studio System in it's heyday!
Check out this clip, from 1935, of “A Trip through a Hollywood Studio." I love that we get to work in a process that, in regards to its technology, has come such a long way.
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We found this online and thought you'd get a kick out of it! - Intimate (silent) 16mm home movies filmed by Roddy McDowall on Labor Day in 1965.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
I'll give you a definite maybe.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
