Michael Winner Quotes

English film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter (1935-2013)

Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was a British film director and producer.

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Alternative Names: Robert Michael Winner

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[On his mother, Helen] Nice, little, white-haired lady. She was a killer. If she decided she wasn't happy about something, she was acid.

I really don't care if I get anything or not. [...] I'm very glad that they recognise my considerable skills as a toilet cleaner.

I don't want to do something for the sake of it. I am prepared to wait. If I wait until I am buried, too bad.

So when I'm directing now, you see, I'm thinking of myself, I'm projecting myself in five weeks' time, sitting in a little room with two assistants, saying, "I now need a piece of film when Mr. Caine does this, or Mr. Moore does that." And if I haven't got it, I say, "Damn it, I should have gotten that." So all the time I'm imagining myself in that little X-time hence which is why I can shoot a very complicated pattern without any pre-planning.
Because I'm two people. I'm Arnold Crust, the editor, and I'm Michael Winner, the director.