Robert Wise
Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wisewas an American film director, producer and editor. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both West Side Storyand The Sound of Music. He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kaneand directed and produced The Sand Pebbles, which was nominated for Best Picture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 September 1914
CityWinchester, IN
CountryUnited States of America
It blows my mind every time I think about the fact that he's out there with us. He's always telling us about how tough his practices were at Ohio State, and it kind of gives us something to live up to. There are no practices when we don't finish breathing hard.
Lugosi was not well. I had to coach him through some scenes, and I was very pleased when Karloff came on the scene and was very sensitive in coaching him through the sequences. Lugosi was one of the finest actors I ever worked with.
You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."