[…]is to make sure you have scripts whichstand upMonty Berman: I was very fortunate that I was associated with Dennis Spooner who wasa marvellous script writer and really he knew all the angles on making films for10television. He got the right writers, he was a story editor, and he got the right writer[…]
[…]cer, which I wonder how long ago a while ago, you know, I thought I and so we will sort of go out and try again. But in the script, I mean, the scriptwriter, I'd obviously looked at the sort of basic story and they produce I'd said, we're gonna have a hunt there. So he he does a hunt of a polar bear[…]
[…]lready written the script there. They said that, you know, for you've got to have Peter because he's done the script and must direct it, but no other writers. And I didn't want Arthur entirely as a physical camera man. But in India, in fact, a director's kind of God, and can't really talk to anyone […]
[…]who can write the thing. I've got the whole plan of it but do you know anyone whose capable of writing scripts?" So I said, "He's a very, very bright writer, he'd soon cotton to what you wanted to say." So I had Ralph one night to dinner with me and he met Sydney and he said, "He strikes me as being[…]
[…]e subsidies, which enable them to grow pretty rich and 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 effective[…]
[…]nfused, and the sort of thing that I didn't know that went on anyway. I kept clear of all of the horse trading. I said, Look, I've been nominated the writers. I had one nomination, and that was from the writers. There was the one nomination from writers, and I, I stuck to it. I said, No, I'm not gon[…]
[…]d 'Frankenstein' yeah. And it was Tony Hinds wasn't it, who was the producer?Tilly Day: Yes, Tony Hinds.Sidney Cole: Yes...and what was the writer of many of those? Sangster!Tilly Day: Sangster, that's right.Sidney Cole: Yeah, they were all very nice people, weren't they?Tilly Da[…]
[…]bsp;response and at that moment it was most unfortunate, you'd think I am a gag writer but it's true, as JohnAppleby called out "What's going on in there?" the […]
[…] I used to have meetings with him there with the writer and most of the time he ignored me completely, […]
