Roughest Quotes

(on director George Cukor) Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

(on filmmaking) I can almost set my watch by how I`m going to feel at different stages of the process. It`s always identical, whether the movie ends up working or not. I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you`re very excited by it and very optimistic about how it`s going to work. And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

Being a teenager is the roughest (time of your life) and that`s when your emotions are going 90 mph. I`d get angry or sad or I isolated myself a little and then I looked for help.

(On film-making) I can almost set my watch by how I`m going to feel at different stages of the process. It`s always identical, whether the movie ends up working or not. I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you`re very excited by it and very optimistic about how it`s going to work. And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.

On Thriller - en grym film (1974) and its influences on Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): "And that is, of all the revenge movies I`ve ever seen, that is definitely the roughest. The roughest revenge movie ever made! There`s never been anything as tough as that movie."

The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.