A biography for Richard O'Brienhasn’t been written yet.
“Life's too short to be working with divas.”
“I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.”
“The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.”
“I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.”
“Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.”
“Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.”
“There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.”
“I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.”
“Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.”
“We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.”