On ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ I remember that sometime in Season 3, there was a Yiddish phrase, ‘Kinahura,’ and a friend of mine who was Jewish said that the closed captioning said ‘Can of Hurrah.’ And I thought ‘Oh, God.’ I never had bothered to see the transcripts but from that point on all the transcripts had to come to me and I checked them. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
In the States anything dealing with religion, people go nuts, because they are nuts. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
Ask any lawyer – if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he’ll prosecute it. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
One weekend, I was driving and in the car next to me on the freeway was a guy who looked like a very conservative Nick Frost, with a short haircut, these horn-rimmed glasses, and he was wearing a jacket and tie. I thought, Oh, there’s Nick if he were an accountant in the ’50s or ’60s. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
It took me little more than two years to complete my film, ‘Woody Allen: A Documentary.’ I conducted hours of filmed interviews with Woody, who put forward no ground rules about questions I could ask, or topics to avoid. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
The documentaries are one thing – I was highlighting someone else’s work, someone else’s genius. Once I had to find my own voice, I’m glad I was a little bit older and had some confidence and had all these great inspirations to draw from. Robert B. Weide Read Quote
