63 Quotes by Donald Sutherland

I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them the next day. All directors look at the rushes, except for Fellini. I asked him why he didn't and said, "Because it interrupts my fantasy." What he was trying to say was that he had a three-dimensional, vibrant, living, volatile fantasy going on in his head, and when he looked at rushes, they were two-dimensional and they killed it.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.

It's the things we love most that destroy us.