Wendy Finerman Productions
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.
Amblin Entertainment
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.
Malpaso Productions
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.
Strong Heart/Demme Production
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Tig Productions, Majestic Films International
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
The Zanuck Company
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
United Artists, Star Partners II, Ltd., Barris Industries, Guber-Peters Company
Hemdale Film Corporation, Recorded Picture Company
The story of the final Emperor of China.
Hemdale Film Corporation
A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Mirage Enterprises
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
I'll give you a definite maybe.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
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.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
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!
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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 convinced…
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
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.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
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!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
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