Robert Wise: American Filmmaker (2013)

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Wise, Robert Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Robert Wise: American Filmmaker

  2013, role: actor , character name: On Camera Interview
• Play in Full Screen Midnight Madness: The History of Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen On Profiles in Courage

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Decoding 'Klaatu Barada Nikto': Science Fiction as Metaphor

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Fearmakers Collection

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen The 78th Annual Academy Awards

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself, in memorial sequence
• Play in Full Screen My Favorite Things: Julie Andrews Remembers

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de clausura

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen West Side Memories

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 100 Greatest Films

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Storm in Summer

  2000, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Close Encounters: Proof of Alien Contact

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
• Play in Full Screen Buñuel en Hollywood

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The American Film Institute Salute to Robert Wise

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Aliens & Monsters

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tudo É Brasil

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: Aliens

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: The Aristocrats of Evil

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: Boris Karloff

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director - 'The Body Snatcher'
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: Sorcerers

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Stupids

  1996, role: actor , character name: Stanley's Neighbor
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: Zombies

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - RKO Editor & Director
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: Ghosts

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: The Walking Dead

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: Freaks

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director. 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: The Evil Unseeable

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Horror: Bela Lugosi

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director - 'The Body Snatcher'
• Play in Full Screen Making the Earth Stand Still

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Century of Cinema

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Sound of Music: From Fact to Phenomenon

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself, producer and director
• Play in Full Screen Silver Star!

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon

  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Visions of Light

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen At Night the Sun Shines

  1992, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Complete Citizen Kane

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Reflections on 'Citizen Kane'

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself

Wise, Robert Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Sex Wars

  2011, role: actor , character name: Bar Patron
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Sex Wars

  2011, role: miscellaneous crew

Wise, Robert Filmography

• Play in Full Screen A Dangerous Place

  2012, role: actor , character name: Banker #4
• Play in Full Screen 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."