[…] up questions.]SIDE 1, TAPE 1Norman Swallow: When did you come to Britain and under what circumstancesRudi Cartier: I was the first person as a young director to direct the first film ever made by Sam Spiegel, he had no experience as a producer, so when it was made here, Sam Spiegel went to, he said[…]
[…]well as you know, they still dainty ladies. And it was dirty job. Yes. No, I knew I never felt any empty. I must say that once or twice. I heard of a director who wouldn't have a woman in the cutting room in this in the system. Really? I heard this about several. You know, I could understand it. Act[…]
[…]l St. John, who was an executive producer, who did have a certain amount of flair, I think. But otherwise, you dealt really with the producer and the director of whichever film you were working on, and it varied as to who had the most say. Sometimes the producer wanted to know everything, and someti[…]
[…] pretty famous at the expense of the people who count, the players, I mean, the players and the writers, the players and the writers. The most that a director should be, is how to present what the player interprets from the script, most effectively. The greatest theatre of my time, with all due resp[…]