I am a little wary of entering another situation where I would just be another director for hire and I’ve been doing this in one form or another since I was twenty-two doing documentaries for PBS and HBO. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
How do you tell a story that you’re a part of without it being a big ego trip? Robert B. Weide Read Quote
Sit down at your computer or open your nearest mobile device and Google these words: ‘Directed by.’ What’s the first predictive text that comes up? Martin Scorsese? Quentin Tarantino? Ingmar Bergman? Chances are the first name Google suggested was Robert B. Weide. That’s me. Sort of. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
A few months ago, a friend emailed to simply ask, ‘Do you get a piece of this?’ The message included a link to a site selling T-shirts emblazoned with ‘Directed by Robert B. Weide.’ My wife soon ordered two. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
I hate to sound like someone twice my age talking about these comics today and all that, but it’s as though their intent or goal on stage seems to be to see how uncomfortable they can make the audience, or how viciously they can savage their subjects. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
The catch in the industry is that if you want to get a picture made for little money, you have to get a big star. But the two are usually mutually exclusive. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
I have some kind of knack for getting to know or becoming very close with people I’ve long admired. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
