Quotes by Richard D. Zanuck

Richard D. Zanuck

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can’t perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

Athlete

Quality

Stars

Everything’s changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like ‘Alice’ or ‘Avatar’ are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry.

Sides

Technology

Way

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

Missing

Tough Times

Years

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it’s easier and safer to go the – to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It’s less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

Ideas

Successful

Thinking

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else – somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It’s comforting. It’s escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it’s just part of human nature to pretend.

Comforting

Human Nature

Thinking

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

School

Summer

Vacation

In the studios days, the public’s perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they’re no longer perceived as different – they’ve become human, so to speak.

Perception

Special

Stars

It wasn’t easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn’t easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

Eyebrows

Running

Shoes

It would have been impossible to get ‘The Verdict’ off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

Pieces

Stars

Would Be

Portnoy’s Complaint’ was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There’s not that much difference.

Differences

Dramatic Situations

Two

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Athlete

Best Times

Blood

Comforting

Copies

Damage

Differences

Dramatic Situations

Eyebrows

Guy

Human Nature

Ideas

Important

Lasts

May

Missing

Perception

Pieces

Pool

Quality

Realizing

Running

School

Scripts

Shoes

Shooting

Sides

Sound

Special

Stars

Stories

Successful

Summer

Taken

Technology

Thinking

Tough Times

Two

Vacation

Way

Would Be

Years

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Quotes by Richard D. Zanuck

Richard D. Zanuck

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can’t perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it’s easier and safer to go the – to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It’s less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else – somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It’s comforting. It’s escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it’s just part of human nature to pretend.

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

In the studios days, the public’s perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they’re no longer perceived as different – they’ve become human, so to speak.

It wasn’t easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn’t easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

It would have been impossible to get ‘The Verdict’ off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

Portnoy’s Complaint’ was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There’s not that much difference.

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