Occupation: Film Director Birth: July 21, 1926
I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler..
Betrayal... is my favorite subject..
I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy..
The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album..
When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors..
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar..
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased..
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the houn….
I think you get better as you get older..
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 nu….
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio..
Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film..
I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?.