Karel Reisz - biography

“A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.”

“I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.”

“I’m now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.”

“Minority views expressed in films simply don’t sell tickets.”

“A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it’s an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.”

“Heroism in a bad cause.”

“I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.”

“The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.”

“There’s a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.”

Karel Reisz directed the following films:
March to Aldermaston (1959)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Night Must Fall (1964)
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Isadora (1968)
The Gambler (1974)
Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
Sweet Dreams (1985)
Everybody Wins (1990)


Karel Reisz contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Gambler (1974)