Norman Jewison Quotes

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I'm just a storyteller.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

I think you get better as you get older.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

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 hounds.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.