OW French interview 1972

[Wellesnet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwWHWMiDzWQ

When I'm casting, I tend to make the mistake of all producers: I cast for how you look. I think about (the voice), but how you look is the first consideration. Then when I have them on the stage, and I'm very interested in their voice, it's too late to change, unless you dub them. I make that mistake a lot. If a film sounds wrong, it doesn't look right. Movies depend so much on rhythm; they are so close to music, closer to music then to a drama of the theatre. So if the sound, and the rhythm of the sound is wrong, no image can save it.

[Roger Ryan]

As noted by the YouTube comment, this interview must have been filmed circa 1982, not in 1972. The reference to President Reagan and Warren Beatty's film REDS (1981) is the giveaway. A pleasant interview all the same.

[Wellesnet]

Thanks for the correction, Roger. Good catch.