With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it’s a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Ocean’s Kingdom’ is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance – it’s not about anything except its water-logged plot. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
There’s no point pretending that all of Martha Graham’s pieces are equally strong. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
River of Light,’ to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was ‘Swan Lake.’ The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it’s important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That’s why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It’s the number one qualification. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
