Reinert, Al 87
Reinhardt, Elizabeth 49
Reisch, Walter 138
Remarque, Erich Maria 274
Renoir, Jean 328
Richlin, Maurice 141
Rickard, Dick 2
Riesner, Don 307
Riskin, Robert 300
Ritt, Martin 143, 334
Roach, Jay 232, 364
Robbins, Jerome 54
Robbins, Tim 261
Roberts, Ben 50, 158, 193
Roberts, Marguerite 165
Roberts, William 279
Robinson, Bruce 343
Robinson, Phil Alden 15, 87
Rodat, Robert 290
Rogen, Seth 353
Romanek, Mark 365
Romero, George A. 223
Rose, Reginald 246
Rose, Ruth 213
Rosenberg, Scott 123, 152
Rosenberg, Stuart 250, 406
Rosner, Mark 319
Ross, Herbert 385, 387
Roth, Eric 34, 87
Rothwell, Talbot 55, 81
Rubin, Danny 363
Ruby, Harry 46, 190
Ruggles, Wesley 191
Rush, Richard 260
Rydell, Mark 32
Ryerson, Florence 85, 106, 214
Ryskind, Morrie 85
Salt, Waldo 86
Samuels, Lesser 164, 329
Sargent, Alvin 59
Sarne, Michael 199
Sather, Drake 350
Schaffner, Franklin J. 12, 281
Schamus, James 94, 265
Schenk, Nick 41
Schiffer, Michael 151
Schisgal, Murray 33, 339
Schlesinger, John 197
Schoedsack, Ernest B. 213
Schrader, Paul 86, 171, 385
Schroeder, Barbet 174
Schulberg, Budd 329, 382
Schulman, Tom 14
Schwentke, Robert 132
Scorsese, Martin 23, 171, 178, 237, 340, 344, 385
Scott, Ridley 225, 291, 292, 320, 408, 413
Seaman, Peter S. 202
Sears, Ted 2
Seaton, George 398
Segal, Erich 86
Segal, Peter 150, 371
Seidler, David 101
Serling, Rod 12
Seymour, James 2
Shaffer, Peter 341
Shanley, John Patrick 121
Shapiro, Stanley 141
Sharp, Alan 170
Shaw, George Bernard 244
Shearer, Harry 341
Sheekman, Arthur 46
Shelton, Ron 204
Sherman, Vincent 358
Sherwin, David 116, 250
Showalter, Michael 207
Shusett, Ronald 225
Siegel, Don 307, 311, 407
Simon, Neil 360
Sinclair, Stephen 88
Singer, Bryan 229
Siodmak, Curt 378
Skolimowski, Jerzy 247
Smith, Earl E. 87
Smith, Webb 2
Soderbergh, Steven 261, 266, 320
Sokolow, Alec 88
Solinas, Franco 280
Solt, Andrew 113
Sorkin, Aaron 63, 288
Sorrentino, Paolo 389
Southern, Terry 221, 279
Spaak, Charles 328
Spheeris, Penelope 149
Spielberg, Steven 31, 86, 170, 229, 290, 307, 371
Stallone, Sylvester 311
Stanton, Andrew 36, 88
Stefano, Joseph 215
Steinberg, Norman 169
Stevens, George 74
Stevenson, Robert 80
Stewart, Donald Ogden 28
Stiller, Ben 350
Stinson, Joseph 87
Stone, Oliver 87, 143, 171, 259, 286
Stoppard, Tom 411
Stuart, Jeb 315
Stupnitsky, Gene 353
Sturges, John 54, 279
Sturges, Preston 68, 158, 277, 328
Swarthout, Miles Hood 311, 407
Swerling, Jo 379
Tally, Ted 228, 413
Tarantino, Quentin 93, 178, 288, 295, 348
Tarkovsky, Andrei 202
Taylor, Jim 152, 351
Taylor, Samuel A. 8, 75, 113
Tewkesbury, Joan 255
Thomas, Gerald 55, 81
Thompson, Ernest 32
Thompson, J. Lee 218
Thompson, Jim 29
Thurber, Rawson Marshall 352
Tidyman, Ernest 171
Tolan, Peter 152
Tolkin, Michael 414
Tourneur, Jacques 158, 378, 381
Towne, Robert 82, 169, 253, 362
Towne, Robert (as P.H. Vazak) 14
Trosper, Guy 334
Truffaut, François 10
Turner, Bonnie 149
Turner, Guinevere 233
Turner, Terry 149
Uger, Alan 169
Uhls, Jim 180, 419
Ulmer, Edgar G. 69
Underwood, Ron 412
Unkrich, Lee 36
Vadim, Roger 221
Van Druten, John 358
Van Dyke, W.S. 300
Van Sant, Gus 348
Varda, Agnès 81
Verhoeven, Paul 149
Victor, Mark 86
Vidor, Charles 141
Viertel, Peter 73
Vintar, Jeff 23
Visconti, Luchino 11
von Trier, Lars 420
Wachowski, Andy 20
Wachowski, Lana 20
Wade, Kevin 204
Wain, David 207
Waititi, Taika 352
Wald, Malvin 399
Waldman, Frank 338
Walker, Andrew Kevin 229, 418
Walsh, Bill 80
Walsh, Fran 38, 88, 266
Walsh, Raoul 50, 158, 193
Washburn, Deric 408
Webb, Chris 36
Webb, James 292
Webb, James R. 218
Weir, Peter 14
Weisberg, David 319
Weiser, Stanley 259
Welles, Orson 49, 242, 246, 328, 358, 402
West, Claudine 275
West, Mae 191
Wexley, John 214
Whale, James 28
Whedon, Joss 88
Wilder, Billy 7, 8, 51, 69, 74, 76, 113, 138, 141, 164, 329, 333, 381, 382
Willingham, Calder 198
Wilson, Gerald 168
Wilson, Michael 12, 278, 305
Wilson, Michael G. 177
Wimperis, Arthur 275
Wing, George 371
Winner, Michael 168
Winterbottom, Michael 323
Wise, Robert 54, 245, 333
Wisher, William, Jr. 87
Wood, Edward D., Jr 9
Wood, Sam 398
Woolf, Edgar Allan 106, 214
Wray, Ardel 378
Wright, Joe 133
Wurlitzer, Rudy 83
Wyler, William 275, 384
Wylie, Philip 213
Yakin, Boaz 97
Yordan, Philip 305
Young, Waldemar 213
Younger, Ben 266
Zaillian, Steven 229
Zapponi, Bernardino 116
Zemeckis, Robert 34, 202
Zimmerman, Paul D. 340
Zinnemann, Fred 248, 305
Zombie, Rob 233
Zucker, David 86, 90, 150
Zucker, Jerry 86, 90
Zwick, Edward 22
PICTURE CAPTIONS AND CREDITS
All the images in this book are from the archives of The Kobal Collection which owes its existence to the vision, talent and energy of the men and women who created the movie industry and whose legacies live on through the films they made, the studios they built, and the publicity photographs they took. Kobal collects, preserves, organizes and makes these images available to enhance our understanding of this cinematic art.
The publisher wishes to thank all of the photographers (known and unknown) and the film production and distribution companies whose publicity
images appear in this book. We apologize in advance for any omissions, or neglect, and will be pleased to make any corrections in future editions.
vii Frank Capra; Columbia/Irving Lippman
xvi A Matter Of Life And Death; ITV Global
3 Humphrey Bogart (right) in The Maltese Falcon; Warner Bros
8 Audrey Hepburn; Paramount/Bud Fraker
13 Woody Allen in Love and Death; United Artists
16 Morgan Freeman (right) in The Shawshank Redemption; ITV Global
21 Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense; Hollywood Pictures/Ron Phillips
24 Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Judy Garland, Terry, Pat Walshe and Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz; MGM
25 Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York; Miramax/Dimension Films
26 I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder on the set of Fedora; United Artists
29 Bette Davis; 20th Century Fox/Frank Powolny
32 Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie; Columbia
34 Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump; Paramount
39 Elijah Wood (left) in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; New Line/Wing Nut/Pierre Vinet
42 Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in All The President’s Men; Warner Bros
43 Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey; MGM
44 Cary Grant in North by Northwest; MGM
47 James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner; MGM
51 Set still from Sunset Boulevard; Paramount
55 + 396 Kenneth Williams in Carry On Cleo; film copyright © 1964 STUDIOCANAL FILMS LTD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
58 Lee Marvin (centre) in The Professionals; Columbia
64 Movie censorship; Paramount/William Walling Jr
65 The Big Sleep poster; Warner Bros
66 Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Reloaded; Warner Bros
69 Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious; RKO
73 and 102 Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen; ITV Global
77 Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot; United Artists
82 Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail; Columbia
84 Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in The Blues Brothers; Universal
88 Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty in Airplane!; Paramount
92 Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction; Miramax/Buena Vista
97 and 154 Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago: Miramax
102 see 73
103 Lee Marvin and Sharon Acker in Point Blank; MGM
104 Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca; Warner Bros
107 Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca; Warner Bros
111 David Niven and Kim Hunter in A Matter of Life and Death; ITV Global
115 Robert Mitchum (right) in The Night of the Hunter; United Artists
117 Christopher Reeve in Superman; Warner Bros/DC Comics
122 Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman; Touchstone
124 and 354 Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind; Dreamworks/Universal
130 Natalie Portman and Clive Owen in Closer; Columbia
134 Ursula Andress on the set of Dr No; Danjaq/Eon/UA
135 Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Psycho; Paramount
136 Jane Fonda in Barbarella; Paramount
139 Mae West; Paramount
142 Peeping Tom; FILM Copyright © 1960 STUDIOCANAL FILMS LTD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
144 John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda; MGM/United Artists/David James
150 Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun 331⁄3: The Final Insult; Paramount
154 see 97
155 Lois Maxwell and Sean Connery in Dr No; Danjaq/Eon/UA
156 Paul Muni in Scarface; United Artists/Gene Kornman
158 James Cagney in White Heat; Warner Bros
163 The Asphalt Jungle film poster; MGM
164 The Wild One film poster; Columbia
169 Blazing Saddles; Warner Bros
175 Kevin Costner in The Untouchables; Paramount
179 Brad Pitt in Fight Club; 20th Century Fox/Merrick Morton
184 Harrison Ford in Raiders of The Lost Ark; Lucasfilm Ltd/Paramount
185 + 361 Kris Kristofferson and John Hurt in Heaven’s Gate; United Artists
186 Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct; Carolco
190 The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup; Paramount
194 An American in Paris poster; MGM
201 Kathleen Turner in Body Heat; Ladd Company/Warner Bros
205 Laura Dern in Wild at Heart; Propaganda/Polygram
208 Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs; Orion/Ken Regan
209 Anthony Quinn and Peter O’Toole in Lawrence Of Arabia; Columbia
210 Colin Clive and Boris Karloff on the set of The Bride of Frankenstein; Universal
213 King Kong; RKO
215 Anthony Perkins in Psycho; Paramount
223 Max von Sydow in The Exorcist; Warner Bros
228 Kathy Bates in Misery; Castle Rock
232 Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; New Line/Kerry Wright
235 Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men; Paramount/Miramax
238 Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II; Paramount
239 Terry Jones in Monty Python’s Life of Brian; Monty Python Films
240 Orson Welles and Gregg Toland on the set of Citizen Kane; RKO
244 Lock Martin as Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still; 20th Century Fox
249 Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke; Warner Bros
254 The Godfather: Part II; Paramount
258 Peter O’Toole in The Last Emperor; Helmsdale Film Corp
262 Vince Vaughn in Swingers; Independent Pictures/Alfred Shay Company
268 Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood; Paramount/Vantage
270 The Ten Commandments; Paramount
271 The Graduate; Embassy/Laurence Turman
272 Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now; Zoetrope/United Artists
278 Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai; Columbia
282 Francis Ford Coppola on the set of Apocalypse Now; Zoetrope
286 R.Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket; Warner Bros
290 and 324 Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan; Dreamworks/Amblin/Universal
294 Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds; Universal/Visiona Romantica Inc.
296 Katharine Hepburn and Howard Hughes magazine; The Kobal Collection
297 Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; ABC/Allied Artists
298 Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV; MGM/UA
301 James Stewart in Mr Smith Goes to Washington; Columbia
304 High Noon; Stanley Kramer/United Artists
308 Steven Spielberg on the set of Jaws; Universal
312 Graham Chapman (centre) in Monty Python’s Life of Brian; Monty Python Films
318 Frances McDormand in Fargo; Working Title/Polygram
321 Russell Crowe in Gladiator; Dreamworks/Universal/Jaap Buitendijk
324 see 290
325 Joan Crawford; MGM/George Hurrell
326 Woody Allen; The Kobal Collection
330 North by Northwest film poster; MGM
334 Once Upon a Time in the West; Paramount/Rafran
341 Christopher Guest in This is Spinal Tap; Spinal Tap Production
344 Joe Pesci in Casino; Universal/Phillip Caruso
349 George Clooney, Chris Thomas King, Tim Blake Nelson in O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Touchstone/Universal/Melinda Sue Gordon
354 see 124
355 Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s; Paramount/Howell Conant
356 Marlene Dietrich; United Artists
361 see 185
364 Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss in Memento; Summit Entertainment
367 12 Angry Men poster; United Artists
370 Tom Cruise in Minority Report; 20th Century Fox/Dreamworks
374 Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris; PEA/Angelo Novi
375 Marilyn Monroe; 20th Century Fox/Frank Powolny/Bottom left Bert Reisfeld
376 Celia Johnson and T
revor Howard in Brief Encounter; ITV Global
380 Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter; ITV Global
384 Jack Lemmon in The Apartment; United Artists
389 Million Dollar Baby; Warner Bros/Merie W. Wallace
394 Julia Roberts in Closer; Columbia
395 Clark Gable; MGM/George Hurrell
396 see 55
400 Orson Welles (left) in The Third Man; FILM Copyright © 1949 STUDIOCANAL FILMS LTD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
402 Grant Williams (seated) in The Incredible Shrinking Man; Universal
405 Michael Caine in Alfie; Paramount
409 Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner; Ladd Company/Warner Bros
418 Mena Suvari in American Beauty; Dreamworks
TEXT CREDITS
Excerpts from Apocalypse Now granted courtesy of Faber & Faber Ltd.
Excerpts from Inglourious Basterds granted courtesy of Faber & Faber Ltd.
Excerpts from Cool Hand Luke granted courtesy of David Higham Ltd.
Excerpts from Without Feathers and Getting Even from Woody Allen: Complete Prose (Picador, 1998).
Excerpt from David Benioff, The 25th Hour (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002), copyright © 2000 by David Benioff, reproduced by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Limited.
Excerpt from William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood (Abacus, 2003), copyright © William Goldman 1983, granted courtesy of Little, Brown Book Group.
Excerpts from Casablanca granted courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Excerpts from Mrs Miniver granted courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Excerpts from Syd Field’s Paradigm, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriting.
The editor and publisher apologize if any material has been included without the appropriate acknowledgement, and would be pleased to rectify any omissions brought to their attention at the earliest opportunity.
About this Book
An informal history of the movies told through some of cinema’s best-loved scenes, from the early days of Hollywood to the present day.
All the Best Lines is an informal history of celluloid narrated through cinema’s best-loved scenes and most memorable lines. Stirring speeches, slices of sparkling dialogue, hard-boiled quips, whispers of endearment, zingers, catchphrases… George Tiffin has combed the archives to unearth five hundred jewels of the screenwriter’s art, from golden-age legends like Ben Hecht and Billy Wilder to such modern masters as Woody Allen and the Coen brothers.
The films represented are grouped by themes that reflect the eternal magic of the silver screen: including Love, Libido, Monsters, Memories, Heroes and Zeroes. Within each theme the quotes are listed chronologically, creating a lively juxtaposition of films, stars and screenwriters from every era.
Sprinkled throughout the book are fifty special features which highlight intriguing aspects of movie history: from the career of Marilyn Monroe to the making of Apocalypse Now; from the art of the screenwriter to the role of the ‘script doctor’; and from film noir to New Wave.
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