Art Hindle, born Arthur Hindle on July 21, 1948, in Halifax to a Royal Canadian Navy father, Art's mother soon had him back in their home town of Toronto, Ontario. He grew up in the "Beaches" of Toronto a big fan of Elvis Presley and rock n' roll. Although shy as a child, he grew to be a rebellious and independent teenager.
Julie Dolan is a native San Fernando “Valley Girl” and began dance lessons at the age of 3 and acting and piano lessons at the age of 9. She attended California State University Northridge for a short time but her continued work in Television and Film kept her away from her studies.
James Morrison, filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, singer/songwriter and yoga teacher, was born in Utah and is a product of Alaska. He began his acting career as a clown and wire walker for the Carson and Barnes Wild Animal Circus and served his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre.
You never watch your films with an audience. Don't you miss hearing them scream?
quote-leftNo. I can hear them when I'm making the picture.
Do you feel that the American film remains the most vital cinema?
quote-leftWorldwide, yes. Because when we make films for the United States, we are automatically making them for all the world--because America is full of foreigners. It's a melting pot. Which brings us to another point. I don't know what they mean when they talk about "Hollywood" pictures. I say, "Where are they conceived?" Look at this room--you can't see out the windows. We might just as well be in a hotel room in London, or anywhere you like. So here is where we get it down on paper. Now where do we go? We go on location, perhaps; and then where do we work? We're inside on a stage, the big doors are closed, and we're down in a coal mine: we don't know what the weather is like outside. Again we don't know where we are--only within our film, within the thing we're making. That's why it's such nonsense to talk about locale. "Hollywood." That doesn't mean anything to me. If you say, "Why do you like working in Hollywood?" I would say, because I can get home at six o'clock for dinner.
Miguel Sandoval has appeared in over one hundred and sixty film and television roles, including the popular boxoffice hits "Jurassic Park", "Clear and Present Danger", "Do the Right Thing", "Get Shorty", and "Up Close and Personal".
He has guest starred on such television series as "Seinfeld", "Frasier", "Murder One", "Law and Order", "E.R.", "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her", and "The Crew".
Q: What is Four Rooms about?
quote-leftIt's four friends telling four stories in one movie, but it's different from other anthology films because it has a connecting character who develops throughout the film. That's Ted the Bellboy, played by Tim Roth. It's New Year's Eve: he goes into these four rooms, and each room is directed by a different person: me, Alexander Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, or Quentin Tarantino. And terrible things happen to him. Actually he makes out best in my room because he gets laid by Ione Skye!
How would this film have been different if it was an independent film? Would it have been made?
quote-leftYeah, definitely. Probably we'd have the same cast, with a different guy playing Jerry Maguire, unless we were able to make an amazing deal with Tom Cruise to do that kind of a movie--which he might have done, I guess. But most of the people, I think, would have been there anyway--it's not a real typical Hollywood cast, hopefully.
Richard Riehle was born and educated in the Midwest. He got a BA cum laude in Speech and Drama from the University of Notre Dame, an MFA in Theater Arts from the University and a diploma in acting from The John Fernald Academy.
Peter Jason was born on the 22nd of July in Hollywood, California. He spent the next 18 years on the beaches of southern cal mostly in front of his family home on the ocean in Balboa, Calif. Growing up at the beach helped form his easygoing love of life, people, and his pursuit of happiness. He attended Newport Beach Elementary School, Horace Ensign Junior High, and Newport Harbor High School where he performed in his first play, "The Man Who Came To Dinner" playing the lead Sheridan Whiteside.
Robert Newman is perhaps best known for his 28-year run as Joshua Lewis on the longest running program in broadcasting history, Guiding Light. The role garnered him 2 Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
