38 Quotes by Robert Wise

Lugosi was not well. I had to coach him through some scenes, and I was very pleased when Karloff came on the scene and was very sensitive in coaching him through the sequences. Lugosi was one of the finest actors I ever worked with.

My answer to that is that I've tried to approach each genre in a cinematic style that I think is right for that genre . . . that accounts for the mix of styles.

I don't know that I had any particular "influence," but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything. Of course Orson was a big influence.

I don't know that I had any particular ""influence,"" but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything. Of course Orson was a big influence.

He was a little of both. I didn't know much in those days, because it was only my third film. I was learning on my feet and he taught me a great deal. He was very open to actors' suggestions and he used whatever spontaneous thoughts or suggestions we might have, if they suited his purpose. He was a firm, but gentle leader.

His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with.

It blows my mind every time I think about the fact that he's out there with us. He's always telling us about how tough his practices were at Ohio State, and it kind of gives us something to live up to. There are no practices when we don't finish breathing hard.

Ordinarily, I don't like to start shooting on a Monday. I prefer to begin in the middle of the week, if I can. On the first day, everyone's a little nervous and anxious, so you have a couple of days' shooting and then the weekend to get re-grouped and catch your breath.

Some of the more esoteric critics claim there's no Robert Wise style,