Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher
Terence Fisherwas a British film director who worked for Hammer Films. He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 February 1904
avoid believe building isolated monster showing tried
I believe in building things up, naturally, but I've never isolated the monster from the world around, or tried to avoid showing him.
halloween joy erotic
Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.
loss preparation important
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
hero red patches
One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
ideas choices important
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
eventually tainted
The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'