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."
- Robert Wise
(Related: People, Film)

"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
(Related: Successful, Audiences)

"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
(Related: Favorite, Film)

"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
(Related: Character, Sense, Stars)

"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."
- Robert Wise
(Related: Perseverance, Passion, Patience)

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

"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
(Related: Truth, Reality)

"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
(Related: Decisions)

"I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that."
- Robert Wise
(Related: People, Being, Talk)