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We want you to take over Monday morning, ... I had 10 days to finish it and I finished it on time. - Robert Wise Quotes

We want you to take over Monday morning, ... I had 10 days to finish it and I finished it on time.

Ordinarily, I don't like to start shooting on a Monday. I prefer to begin in the middle of the week, if I can. On the first day, everyone's a little nervous and anxious, so you have a couple of days' shooting and then the weekend to get re-grouped and catch your breath. - Robert Wise Quotes

Ordinarily, I don't like to start shooting on a Monday. I prefer to begin in the middle of the week, if I can. On the first day, everyone's a little nervous and anxious, so you have a couple of days' shooting and then the weekend to get re-grouped and catch your breath.

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. - Robert Wise Quotes

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.

American Producer

Lugosi was not well. I had to coach him through some scenes, and I was very pleased when Karloff came on the scene and was very sensitive in coaching him through the sequences. Lugosi was one of the finest actors I ever worked with. - Robert Wise Quotes

Lugosi was not well. I had to coach him through some scenes, and I was very pleased when Karloff came on the scene and was very sensitive in coaching him through the sequences. Lugosi was one of the finest actors I ever worked with.

Coach

[Although Welles was later prone to insinuating that he had edited] Kane ... basically left the original assembly up to me. - Robert Wise Quotes

[Although Welles was later prone to insinuating that he had edited] Kane ... basically left the original assembly up to me.

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. - Robert Wise Quotes

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.

American Producer Apple

Star Trek. - Robert Wise Quotes

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. - Robert Wise Quotes

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.

American Producer

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. - Robert Wise Quotes

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

American Producer

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. - Robert Wise Quotes

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.

American Producer

Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot, - Robert Wise Quotes

Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot,

Some of the more esoteric critics claim that there's no Robert Wise style or stamp. My answer to that is that I've tried to approach each genre in a cinematic style that I think is right for that genre. I wouldn't have approached 'The Sound of Music' the way I approached 'I Want to Live!' for anything, and that accounts for a mix of styles. - Robert Wise Quotes

Some of the more esoteric critics claim that there's no Robert Wise style or stamp. My answer to that is that I've tried to approach each genre in a cinematic style that I think is right for that genre. I wouldn't have approached 'The Sound of Music' the way I approached 'I Want to Live!' for anything, and that accounts for a mix of styles.

Style

[Then came Welles' 1941 masterpiece,] Citizen Kane, ... a high point in a lucky life. - Robert Wise Quotes

[Then came Welles' 1941 masterpiece,] Citizen Kane, ... a high point in a lucky life.

Life

His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with. - Robert Wise Quotes

His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with.

That lasted about 60% of the filming, - Robert Wise Quotes

That lasted about 60% of the filming,

He was a little of both. I didn't know much in those days, because it was only my third film. I was learning on my feet and he taught me a great deal. He was very open to actors' suggestions and he used whatever spontaneous thoughts or suggestions we might have, if they suited his purpose. He was a firm, but gentle leader. - Robert Wise Quotes

He was a little of both. I didn't know much in those days, because it was only my third film. I was learning on my feet and he taught me a great deal. He was very open to actors' suggestions and he used whatever spontaneous thoughts or suggestions we might have, if they suited his purpose. He was a firm, but gentle leader.

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier, ... When I talk to people, I tell them that. - Robert Wise Quotes

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier, ... When I talk to people, I tell them that.

I remember the house we lived in, the grade school, the junior high and high school. I remember one time we had a fire in the high school so we couldn't go there. We had to go to the junior high school for a year. - Robert Wise Quotes

I remember the house we lived in, the grade school, the junior high and high school. I remember one time we had a fire in the high school so we couldn't go there. We had to go to the junior high school for a year.

I had to come out here and go to work and I came off all right, - Robert Wise Quotes

I had to come out here and go to work and I came off all right,

It was just a job to start with, you know, - Robert Wise Quotes

It was just a job to start with, you know,

I'd rather do my own thing, which has been to choose projects that take me into all different kinds of genres. I don't have a favorite kind of film to make. I just look for the best material I can find. - Robert Wise Quotes

I'd rather do my own thing, which has been to choose projects that take me into all different kinds of genres. I don't have a favorite kind of film to make. I just look for the best material I can find.

Some of the more esoteric critics claim there's no Robert Wise style, - Robert Wise Quotes

Some of the more esoteric critics claim there's no Robert Wise style,

Style

My answer to that is that I've tried to approach each genre in a cinematic style that I think is right for that genre . . . that accounts for the mix of styles. - Robert Wise Quotes

My answer to that is that I've tried to approach each genre in a cinematic style that I think is right for that genre . . . that accounts for the mix of styles.

Style

We were getting completely behind schedule and over budget, and the studio heads were convinced it was because it was being co-directed. - Robert Wise Quotes

We were getting completely behind schedule and over budget, and the studio heads were convinced it was because it was being co-directed.

(1942) and directed a new scene in that film. That gave me the urge to direct. - Robert Wise Quotes

(1942) and directed a new scene in that film. That gave me the urge to direct.

We believe most of the transition is going to start this summer. - Robert Wise Quotes

We believe most of the transition is going to start this summer.

It blows my mind every time I think about the fact that he's out there with us. He's always telling us about how tough his practices were at Ohio State, and it kind of gives us something to live up to. There are no practices when we don't finish breathing hard. - Robert Wise Quotes

It blows my mind every time I think about the fact that he's out there with us. He's always telling us about how tough his practices were at Ohio State, and it kind of gives us something to live up to. There are no practices when we don't finish breathing hard.

I've often wondered if maybe I tried to tell too many stories in The Sand Pebbles. - Robert Wise Quotes

I've often wondered if maybe I tried to tell too many stories in The Sand Pebbles.

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. - Robert Wise Quotes

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.

American Producer

I don't know that I had any particular

I don't know that I had any particular ""influence,"" but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything. Of course Orson was a big influence.

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. - Robert Wise Quotes

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.

American Producer

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines. - Robert Wise Quotes

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

American Producer

Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot, - Robert Wise Quotes

Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot,

(1942) and directed a new scene in that film. That gave me the urge to direct. - Robert Wise Quotes

(1942) and directed a new scene in that film. That gave me the urge to direct.

I don't know that I had any particular

I don't know that I had any particular "influence," but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything. Of course Orson was a big influence.

Ford

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