Wise, Robert Filmography

• Robert Wise: American Filmmaker
  2013, role: actor , character name: On Camera Interview
• Midnight Madness: The History of Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• On Profiles in Courage
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Making of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Decoding 'Klaatu Barada Nikto': Science Fiction as Metaphor
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Fearmakers Collection
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• The 78th Annual Academy Awards
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself, in memorial sequence
• My Favorite Things: Julie Andrews Remembers
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Ceremonia de clausura
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• West Side Memories
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 100 Greatest Films
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• A Storm in Summer
  2000, role: director
• Close Encounters: Proof of Alien Contact
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
• Buñuel en Hollywood
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The American Film Institute Salute to Robert Wise
  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Hollywood Aliens & Monsters
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Tudo É Brasil
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 100 Years of Horror: Aliens
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
• 100 Years of Horror: The Aristocrats of Evil
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 100 Years of Horror: Boris Karloff
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director - 'The Body Snatcher'
• 100 Years of Horror: Sorcerers
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Stupids
  1996, role: actor , character name: Stanley's Neighbor
• 100 Years of Horror: Zombies
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - RKO Editor & Director
• 100 Years of Horror: Ghosts
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 100 Years of Horror: The Walking Dead
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 100 Years of Horror: Freaks
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director. 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
• 100 Years of Horror: The Evil Unseeable
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 100 Years of Horror: Bela Lugosi
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director - 'The Body Snatcher'
• Making the Earth Stand Still
  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• A Century of Cinema
  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Sound of Music: From Fact to Phenomenon
  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself, producer and director
• Silver Star!
  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon
  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Visions of Light
  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• At Night the Sun Shines
  1992, role: producer
• The Complete Citizen Kane
  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Reflections on 'Citizen Kane'
  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself

Wise, Robert Filmography

• Hollywood Sex Wars
  2011, role: actor , character name: Bar Patron
• Hollywood Sex Wars
  2011, role: miscellaneous crew

Wise, Robert Filmography

• A Dangerous Place
  2012, role: actor , character name: Banker #4
• Minimal Knowledge
  2002, role: actor , character name: Police Photographer #2

Famous quotes by Robert Wise:

"I've always been proud of being a Hoosier, ... When I talk to people, I tell them that."

"He was a little of both. I didn't know much in those days, because it was only my third film. I was learning on my feet and he taught me a great deal. He was very open to actors' suggestions and he used whatever spontaneous thoughts or suggestions we might have, if they suited his purpose. He was a firm, but gentle leader."

"That lasted about 60% of the filming,"

"His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with."

"[Although Welles was later prone to insinuating that he had edited] Kane ... basically left the original assembly up to me."

"[Then came Welles' 1941 masterpiece,] Citizen Kane, ... a high point in a lucky life."

"Some of the more esoteric critics claim that there's no Robert Wise style or stamp. My answer to that is that I've tried to approach each genre in a cinematic style that I think is right for that genre. I wouldn't have approached 'The Sound of Music' the way I approached 'I Want to Live!' for anything, and that accounts for a mix of styles."

"Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot,"

"The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made."

"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."

"A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them."

"As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial."

"I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important."

"Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script."

"You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines."

"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."

"You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked."

"I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that."