Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller, OCis a United States-based Canadian television and film director, having directed over 33 major films during his 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s he began directing films, most often comedies. He also directed award-winning dramas and romantic subjects, such as Love Story, which was nominated for seven Oscars...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 November 1923
CityEdmonton, Canada
CountryCanada
Arthur Hiller quotes about
He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just before the film went into general release.
It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.
People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.
We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.
Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.
I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.