Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Ted Kotcheff

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American film director Ted Kotcheff.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Ted Kotcheff

William Theodore Kotcheff is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director, writer and producer, known primarily for his work on British and American television productions such as Armchair Theatre and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has also directed numerous successful films including the Australian Wake in Fright (1971), action films such as the original Rambo movie First Blood (1982) and Uncommon Valor (1983), and comedies like Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), North Dallas Forty (1979), and Weekend at Bernie's (1989). He is sometimes credited as William T. Kotcheff, and resides in Beverly Hills, California. Due to his ancestry, Kotcheff has Bulgarian citizenship.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film. — © Ted Kotcheff
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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