Robert Wise
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"Robert Earl Wise" was an American film director, producer and editor. He won Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Director/Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture/Best Picture for both West Side Story (film)/West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (film)/The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Film Editing/Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (film)/The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.

Among his other films are The Body Snatcher (film)/The Body Snatcher (1945), Born to Kill (1947 film)/Born to Kill (1947), The Set-Up (1949 film)/The Set-Up (1949), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Destination Gobi (1953), This Could Be the Night (film)/This Could Be The Night (1957), Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), I Want to Live! (1958), The Haunting (1963 film)/The Haunting (1963), The Andromeda Strain (film)/The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Hindenburg (film)/The Hindenburg (1975) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987.

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He was a little of both. I didn't know much in those days, because it was only my third film. I was learning on my feet and he taught me a great deal. He was very open to actors' suggestions and he used whatever spontaneous thoughts or suggestions we might have, if they suited his purpose. He was a firm, but gentle leader.

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Citizen Kane was a marvelous film to work on--well planned and well-shot.

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His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with.

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[Then came Welles' 1941 masterpiece,] Citizen Kane, ... a high point in a lucky life.

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Some of the more esoteric critics claim that there's no Robert Wise style or stamp. My answer to that is that I've tried to approach each genre in a cinematic style that I think is right for that genre. I wouldn't have approached 'The Sound of Music' the way I approached 'I Want to Live!' for anything, and that accounts for a mix of styles.

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The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

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[Although Welles was later prone to insinuating that he had edited] Kane ... basically left the original assembly up to me.

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That lasted about 60% of the filming.

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I've always been proud of being a Hoosier, ... When I talk to people, I tell them that.

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