Quotes
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Terence Macartney-Filgate - Cameraman : Are you telling me, the name of the game is sexuality?
William Graves - Director : Um, yeah. The important thing is that I want to make sure that everything that happens on the set, I mean, whether its off - off camera or whether its among the crew, or whether its being shot, has thematically, I mean, we should be constantly relating to - sexuality. The sexuality of - but, anyway, the point is - Oh, there's that woman with the tits! Hey, hey, there she is, just right down there. Get her. Get her. Yeah, no, she's coming, she's coming! Alright. Alright.
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William Greaves - Director : I'm just kidding. No, don't take me seriously.
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William Greaves - Director : Terry, your job is that you're the person that is in charge of filming this film being filmed. Okay?
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Policeman : What kind of movie - picture are you making?
Bob Rosen - Production Manager : What kind? Well, it's a feature.
William Greaves - Director : It's a feature length - it's a feature length, we don't know.
Policeman : You don't know?
William Greaves - Director : It's a feature length, we don't know.
Bob Rosen - Production Manager : Right. We'll find out after we develop it.
William Greaves - Director : The tentative title of it is, "Over the Cliff."
Policeman : Over the cliff? You have to find a cliff now, huh?
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William Greaves - Director : The point is this: that the screen test proves to be unsatisfactory from the stand point of the actors and the Director. And then, what happens is that the Director and the actors undertake to improvise something better than that which is - has been written, you know, in the screen test. This sort of palace revolt, you know, no no, which is taking place is not dissimilar to the revolution that is taking place in America today - in terms of the fact that, in the sense that I represent the Establishment, you know, and I've been trying to get you to do certain things which you've become, in a sense disenchanted with. Now, your problem is that you've come up with creative suggestions which will make this a better production than we now have.
Bob Rosen - Production Manager : I don't understand that at all.
William Greaves - Director : It doesn't matter whether or not you understand it. The important thing is that we surface from this production experience with something that is entirely exciting and creative as a result of our collective efforts.
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William Greaves - Director : You and I are going to be filming the actors. The two of us, see, are going to be filming the actors - continuously - and you will be filming me and the actors. I'm going to be filming the actors and Terry is going to be in charge of filming the whole thing. You see?
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Ree Gilbert - Actress Testing for Alice : Look, now, I have put up - with your escapades long enough. I mean, I saw you two just...
William Greaves - Director : Cut. Sorry. We ran out of film there. Do you want to - well - what we'll do is pick it up again. We ran out of film there.
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : Allright. And then you got this squad car. You got...
William Greaves - Director : You got this squad car - eh - so, we'll pick this up again. Um. How do you - how do you - how do you feel about this scene since you, you know, have done it last time. Have any thoughts come to mind? Is there anything about it that...
Ree Gilbert - Actress Testing for Alice : I feel I want to lower it. I want to lower it.
William Greaves - Director : Lower?
Ree Gilbert - Actress Testing for Alice : Yeah, I want to go lower. I felt I was doing it faster than last time. I need more, I need more time. I need lots of time. And that's why I'm trying
William Greaves - Director : Yeah, take your time, okay.
Ree Gilbert - Actress Testing for Alice : It's just - and I have a tendency to rush, you know, I'm always - It's plain old insecurity! That's all, I mean.
William Greaves - Director : Well, you're also...
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : That's just the film going. See, that's - when you rehearse there's no film and you suddenly hear the clickity-clickity-clickity-clickity-clickity-clickity-clickity-click.
Ree Gilbert - Actress Testing for Alice : I don't.
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : I do. I sure as hell do.
William Greaves - Director : How do you feel about it Don?
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : I'd just like to act better, that's all.
[laughs]
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : That's my problem.
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William Greaves - Director : Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. We're going to have a picture folks. It's hard to believe, but, it's gonna happen. Come along. Come along. Actors. Please. Places, please. Jonathan. Mr. Lerner, you're presence is desperately requested. Okay. Listen. Are we making a movie or are we not?
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William Greaves - Director : Don't inhibit yourself in this area, you know. Just explore it, physically what you...
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : You know the thing that kind of bothers me - that I'm bugged. And that is that I don't know whether to play, physically, a, you know, bi-sexual - - no, I'm being very serious. Oh, I see, I don't know whether to be faggy?
William Greaves - Director : Yes. Right.
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : Or, not. I have explored the kind of thing and I don't know whether this is a faggy fag or a butch fag? Whether its a guy that goes around and says, "All right, you sons of bitches, you cock, you muthafu - " You know, and it turns out he's a fag. Because he's playing the masculinity thing to such an extreme that it's a joke. So, I don't whether to come in with the chain and the black boots or to just play it - straight.
William Greaves - Director : Which would you prefer to play?
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : Well, in a way, in a way I'd like to be a closet fag. You know, the kind that nobody ever says - like people that we know since I now can't name names - and you finally say, "What? Come on?" and you finally discover it was true.
William Greaves - Director : Right. Right. Well, let's play that. Let's play that kind of a fag. You know, a closet fag. You know. Okay?
Don Fellows - Actor Testing for Freddy : Well, I'll just go ahead and - I'll just play it straight, then.
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Bob Rosen - Production Manager : I think we can use this. I think it will add an interesting texture to the film. Doesn't anybody think so? Nobody thinks so?
William Greaves - Director : I wouldn't call it a texture. Well, you can see the comments right on their faces. Just pan over and look at that.