Robert Wise
Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wisewas an American film director, producer and editor. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both West Side Storyand The Sound of Music. He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kaneand directed and produced The Sand Pebbles, which was nominated for Best Picture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 September 1914
CityWinchester, IN
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
It was just a job to start with, you know,
I had to come out here and go to work and I came off all right,
I've often wondered if maybe I tried to tell too many stories in The Sand Pebbles.
I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.
I've always been proud of being a Hoosier, ... When I talk to people, I tell them that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot,
We want you to take over Monday morning, ... I had 10 days to finish it and I finished it on time.