[…]of art, it's no good saying I have it in me, I'm a great sculptor, I have something burning inside me, I can do it. Unless you know how to handle the hammer and chisle you can't be. Equally you have to serve an apprenticeship in film. You have to learn all the rules in order to know how to break the[…]
[…] tremendously. I mean, I worked on all kinds of pictures and we worked on many that were very tight budgets when, if we went five minutes over, I was hammered like mad because it cost overtime, and so we had to avoid that, which was a problem because people still wanted a first-class job! [Chuckles][…]
[…] could find in those days was these long bars of Primrose soap. And I remember sitting up on the spot rail with a bar of Primrose soap and this hammer and getting as near the mic as I could and this was doing the mining all the time. Another thing was I built these things like in theatre[…]
[…] beat’, but a little tiny bit of gold you can hammer over half an acre. SF: Yes, yes. And that […]
[…] the autumn of 1935, the old banks were starting to hammer on the Ostrer's doors, and with six pictures, I […]
[…] from the air. It had all the stars and the hammer and sickle on the top! [Laughs] We thought we'd […]
[…] one of which is you can't mend them with a hammer. But in Trials of Life we wanted to do […]
[…] and many others. He is also known for some classic Hammer films, including Quatermass and the Pit, The Vampire Lovers, […]
[…] budgets when, if we went five minutes over, I was hammered like mad because it cost overtime, and so we […]
[…]ought eventually as I got older I thought this is this has to change. This is a system like the car the motorcar you know the engine with the pistons hammering up and down. And that crankshaft turning. It's it's killing itself. It's kind of wearing itself out in doing what it has to do. But I had no[…]
