A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can’t perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
The Sound of Music’ did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it’s been the best time I’ve ever had. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
It wasn’t easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn’t easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
When you’re doing a film, it’s your film and it’s, you know, your blood and – is in it along with everybody else’s, and it’s the greatest picture ever made when you’re shooting it. It’s only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
Portnoy’s Complaint’ was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There’s not that much difference. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we’ve unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
I had a tough time 12 years ago getting ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ off the ground. Today, it would be impossible. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
It would have been impossible to get ‘The Verdict’ off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough. Richard D. Zanuck Read Quote
