Warren Beatty (1937- )

Warren Beatty (1937- )

Warren Beatty ( /ˈbeɪti/ BAY-tee; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including winning the Best Director Award and its highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. He has been nominated for 16 Golden Globe Awards and won six, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he received in 2007. Only Beatty and Orson Welles have been nominated for producer, director, writer and actor in the same film. Welles did it once (for Citizen Kane), Beatty did it twice (for Heaven Can Wait and Reds).

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Quotes·Quotations by Warren Beatty


Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow from Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

¶ We rob banks.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Beatty

Woody Allen (1935- )

Woody Allen (1935- )

Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema. He is also a jazz clarinetist who performs regularly at small venues in Manhattan.[1]

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Quotes·Quotation by Woody Allen

Death·Immortality

¶ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!

Money

¶ Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.


Woody Allen as Alvy Singer from Annie Hall (1977)

¶ That's because they don't throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen

William Alland (1916-1997)

William Alland (1916-1997)

William Alland (March 4, 1916 – November 11, 1997) was an American actor, producer, writer and director of science fiction and western films. He is perhaps best known for his role as reporter Jerry Thompson, who investigates the life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welle's Citizen Kane. In his early 20s, he arrived in Manhattan and took courses at the Henry Street Settlement House, where he met Orson Welles. He also lent his voice to Welles' The War of the Worlds. Alland won a Peabody Award as producer of Doorway to Life.

Alland's role as reporter Thompson in Citizen Kane is noted most importantly because the camera never closes up on his face; in fact, for the majority of his scenes in the film, he shows his back to the camera, and whenever his face can be seen, it is always in long-shot and almost always clouded in shadow. As noted by film critic Roger Ebert on the DVD commentary of Citizen Kane, Alland once reportedly told an entire audience of people that they would probably recognize him if he were to show his back to them.

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Quotes·Quotation by William Alland

William Alland as Jerry Thompson from Citizen Kane (1941)

¶ I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alland