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Otto Preminger [1906-1986] Austrian

Rank: 101
Director, Theatre Director

Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian American theatre and film director. He is known for directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre.

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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.		101
What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.		102
When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.		103
I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.		104
Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.		105
When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!		106
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.		107
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.		108
I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.		109
I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.		110

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