Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor whose film career spans 50 years...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 July 1935
CitySaint John, Canada
CountryCanada
imagination catalyst
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
wife passionate my-wife
The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
country government cost
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
eye thinking blood
When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not something you can actually ever get to, I don't think, without that. It was a huge gift, as an actor.
wife location film
I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.
dirty play careers
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
jobs years people
I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.
son thinking different
I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.
artistic wells casts
Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
truth reality people
Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.
our-generation generations aging
He doesn't translate well into our generation.
two next-day trying
When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them the next day. All directors look at the rushes, except for Fellini. I asked him why he didn't and said, "Because it interrupts my fantasy." What he was trying to say was that he had a three-dimensional, vibrant, living, volatile fantasy going on in his head, and when he looked at rushes, they were two-dimensional and they killed it.
measurement experts opinion
One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
cameras
When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.