Altman (2014)

Kathryn Reed: Self

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• Kathryn Reed : One day, years and years ago, just after the war, Bob had nothing to do and he went to a theater in the middle of the afternoon to see a movie. Not a Hollywood movie, a British movie.

  Title Card : Brief Encounter - Directed by DAVID LEAN - 1945

  Kathryn Reed : He said the main character was not glamorous. Not a babe. And at first he wondered why he was even watching it. But, twenty minutes later he was in tears and had fallen in love with her. And it made him feel that it wasn't just a movie.

• Kathryn Reed : David Brown, the Producer, told Bob that he had a project that Bob was born to direct, because it struck everything that was wrong with Hollywood. And it was true. Nobody but Bob could have pulled off "The Player" the way he did. It gave him the chance to crucify forever Hollywood's entire way of making movies.