Otto Preminger Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Otto Preminger:

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
~Otto Preminger


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#c9c66900

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
~Otto Preminger


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#af388b1d

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
~Otto Preminger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#254e42a5

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!
~Otto Preminger


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#c5f56192

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
~Otto Preminger


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#24ccfcc4

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
~Otto Preminger


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#96796c0a

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
~Otto Preminger


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#98cc846c

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
~Otto Preminger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#4f0adeb0

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
~Otto Preminger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#3258c235

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
~Otto Preminger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/otto-preminger-quotes/#da885c9f

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