Chris Menges

[…] I mean, even Michael Collins I didn’t do the final grade of that on the DVD, on the blu-ray. I think that the distribution companies think they know best and they also think it’s going to cost money and cause delays. Well it doesn’t cost money and it doesn’t cause delays and they don’t know best.PF[…]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…]really have the time to pull together an authoritative brief for the Presenter and the way it was done then was about harnessing expertise to get the best possible product for the viewer. You can say that there was too much money spent on it and that the people who worked on it had too good a time a[…]

John Agnew

[…] of rubbish as an operator so it's in your interest to actually get that person to be good because it reflects on the Sound Recordist. You can be the best Sound Recordist in the world but if the Boom Operator is not getting anywhere close to where it wants to be then you're not going to go. You won'[…]

Interview

[…]in America, we had a distributor there and he entered four or five of our films and we got nominated four times and then, at least, we, you know, the nomination went, we, went through to the first, the last four. And at last, with WILD WINGS, which wasn't the best of them, to be nominatedreally, but[…]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]t a good atmosphere, actually, and there was a constant feeling of management and – worker is too – you know what I mean. In that sense it wasn’t the best atmosphere.I do remember a question being asked on the very first occasion when I joined the BBC and they had a good question, which was “How do […]

Renee Glynne

[…]ce and “Yes, we’d like you to do it.” Oh, how wonderful. It’s at theOlympic Studio in Barnes and on location and the Cameraman is Tony er ..., mybest friend, can’t think of his surname [Richmond], and the operator is Mike Fox.That’s all I remember of the crew. And I said: “Could […]
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