Gene Wilder Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

  Gene Wilder

  Art, Film, Great Art

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

  Gene Wilder

  Love, Art, Acting

• I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

  Gene Wilder

  Business, Mean, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

  Gene Wilder

  Magic, Comedian, Directors

• In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie And Clyde." And neurotics soon became his stock-in-trade, whether he was playing the weird title character in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory..."

  Gene Wilder

  Character, Chocolate, Titles

  Source: www.npr.org

• At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to death of the Frankenstein films ... and in all these years later, I wanted it to come out with a happy ending, and I think it was my fear of the Frankenstein movies when I was 8 and 9 and 10 years old that made me want to write that story [Young Frankenstein].

  Gene Wilder

  Writing, Boys, Thinking

  Source: keranews.org

• I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

  Gene Wilder

  New York, People, Three

  Source: keranews.org

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