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Norman Jewison
July 21, 1926 -
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Director
Subcategory: Canadian Director

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

   

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

   

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

   

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

   

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

   

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

   

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

   

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

   

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

   

I work with a lot of movie stars.

   

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

   

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

   

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

   

I think you get better as you get older.

   

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

   

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

   

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

   

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

   

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

   

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

   

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