Norman Jewison Quotes

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Norman Jewison

Profession : Director

Birth : July 21, 1926

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

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Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

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And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

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Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

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We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

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I'm just a storyteller.

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Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

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I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

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And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

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We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

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I work with a lot of movie stars.

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Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

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A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

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With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

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When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

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I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

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When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

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I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

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Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

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In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

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