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No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.


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Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
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I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.
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There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
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Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.
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I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had.
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