And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.
My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.
No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.'
Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.
If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.
My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.
'Sunset Boulevard' by Billy Wilder, it's one of my favorite films. I love all the movies from the 1950s.
I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies.
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
I started 'Carol' as I almost always do, by looking at films from the time, and they were less - they actually felt less relevant to me in terms of their bigness, although we do have some big '50s-type moments in 'Carol.'
Growing up, I loved films like 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'On the Waterfront' and became a huge fan of Marlon Brando.
One night I was sick and I watched the old black and white 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' And it freaked me out.
Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period!
My favorite film is 'All About Eve'.
I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
