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Norman Jewison Quotes

1926–2024 Canada

Norman Frederick Jewison CC OOnt (21 July 1926 – 20 January 2024) was a Canadian film and television director and producer. Jewison addressed social and political issues throughout his filmmaking career, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences.

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So many aspects of our life have disappeared from movie screens [...] And they're now appearing on cable.

I don't make social statements in my pictures [...] though I do feel a film should be about something—that it have a raison d'etre. It should not shy away from social problems.

For me, films are about ideas [...] Every director should ask himself, 'Why am I making this picture?' And if you can't answer that, you shouldn't make it.

[On John Wayne] The drunker he got the more he wanted to punch me out.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Jewison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.