Allied Stars Ltd., Goldcrest Films, Enigma Productions, The Ladd Company
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
TSG Entertainment / Double Dare You Productions
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
"The Shape of Water" is a 2017 American romantic dark fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in Baltimore in 1962, the story follows a mute custodian at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.
Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
A Stanley Jaffe Production
Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.
EMI Films
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Rollins-Joffe Productions
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
Chartoff-Winkler Productions
A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Selznick International Pictures
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife. - An unnamed naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine) is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married. The young woman is now the second "Mrs. de Winter."
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.
" All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
To a young Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
" Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
" The average American family hasn't time for television.
" From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
" I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
" 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 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.
" 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.
" I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
" Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
" We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
" I'll moider da bum!
" The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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 can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
" Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
" The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
" Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
" Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
" Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
" 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!
" 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.
" Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
" Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
" Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
" Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
" I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
" I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
" Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
" The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
" The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
" 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.
While attending a Production Meeting
" This is no place to ask questions!!
" Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
" 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.
" What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
" I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
" I'll give you a definite maybe.
" I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
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.
" Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
" The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
" The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
" Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
" My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
