A biography for Norman Jewisonhasn’t been written yet.
“With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.”
“I work with a lot of movie stars.”
“I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?”
“Betrayal... is my favorite subject.”
“When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.”
“We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.”
“As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.”
“Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.”
“I think you get better as you get older.”
“When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.”
“I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.”
“Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.”