[…] the end of film party, Jocelyn Rickards was there and I’d heard about Jocelyn and I thought she sounded wonderful, and I had for a bit worked as Art Director on Morgan as my husband’s father died in America and he went off for a month. Nobody seemed to even notice me so I just carried on! I’d spott[…]
[…] the story could come first I think you’ll find that the inspiration for good photography comes from within the writing. And it’s surprising how many directors you work for who haven’t the faintest idea really how to photograph a film but if you’re inspired by the writing and the ideas in the story,[…]
[…]ithin certain degrees of control. And an Arts programme wants to throw these things out the window but you had to have an awful lot of trust that the Director would say to you, "I want to do it this way" and then when he then takes the footage into the Edit suite and the Editor says, "I can't cut th[…]
[…]; And to cut a long story short, within 6 months of my arrival Ronnie was fired and I was made as they call it the [??] director which is the managing director of the whole thing. So I knew everything about cinema then, I knew a fair bit about distribution but not[…]
[…]sp;Glyn Jones 0:00The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. The name of the interviewee is Derek Williams, Writer Director. The interviewer is Glyn Jones. The date is the first of May 2002. And this is side one. Have you had an extensive career in the particu[…]
[…]s that we started it off on the floor, and then it was going for about two weeks but they got into trouble with time and everything, because we had a director who had an idea that he wanted to shoot it in sequence. Instead of shooting everything in one set-up and then editing it later, [chuckles] he[…]
[…]rst film was Harold Huth? and Chilli Boucher as a juvenile leads. In a film I think it was called Downstream with a chap called David Dunbar American director of wore a big Stetson hat and was marvellous at throwing knives and things like that. But he wasn't a very good director. Not at someone, not[…]
[…]Anthony Mendleson : Well that was the whole point, that was your training! I mean, you went through the script religiously, you had meetings with the director and the producer, and you'd say, "Now I reckon that Susan Shaw will need three changes and the last change you had six versions of..." or som[…]
[…]t it, Archie Mayo directed it. Now remember on an exterior scene - because I was always anxious to get out on the set because I always wanted to be a director, not a writer - he had a big, high tower and it swayed in the wind. And Archie was a tremendously fat man and got dizzy very easily. So he we[…]
[…] on [laughter] and there was a very, very shrewd managing director, who said, ‘Yes, I think you’re just the person […]
