motiveduck
Home
Quotes
Categories
Wallpapers
Authors
Quotes
Categories
Posts
About Us
Top 100 Quotes
View all the top 100 incredible quotes
Quote of the day
Daily inspirational quotes from famous authors and thinkers to motivate, provoke thought, and offer wisdom.
No results found.
Show More
Otto Preminger Quotes
Otto Preminger
Profession : Director
Birth : December 5, 1905
Home
Authors
Otto Preminger
Authors by First Letter :
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
Otto Preminger
I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
Otto Preminger
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
Otto Preminger
Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
Otto Preminger
When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!
Otto Preminger
When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
Otto Preminger
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
Otto Preminger
I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
Otto Preminger
I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
Otto Preminger