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(4 quotes by Alan Bates)
I think all plays should be filmed. I think we should forget about this division of cinema and theatre. I think any sort of great production should be filmed, just for the future if for nothing else.
I consider Peter Finch and James Mason the two best English actors of the 1960s. But I never understood Finch. How could he do something as beautiful as "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," but also make all that other shit? I mean he could read, couldn`t he?
[1973 comment on Anthony Quinn] At his best he`s a marvelous actor and he`s a very instinctive actor. He has a sort of animal quality, although I think he`s got a bit stuck with it. He`s a larger than life character. He`s that without trying before he sta...