Ronald Harwood - biography

“Well we took it apart scene by scene.  We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma.  He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he’s a very good artist.”

“I mean he’s a very famous director...  they’re not going to put their...  and he’s very tough, he doesn’t like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.”

“He’s very concealed, Polanski.  We became very close friends, but I don’t think I ever saw him drop his guard.  I didn’t see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.”

“It’s a terrific...  you can’t put it down.  So I phoned him back and I said I’d love to do it.  I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.”

“Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.”

“I went straight in.  Fade in, one...  whatever.  He’s playing the piano in the radio station.”

“No, I can’t write treatments, I think there’s a danger with treatments.  That you...  you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.”

Ronald Harwood contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Drop Dead Darling (1966)
Eyewitness (1970)
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
The Dresser (1983)
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Cin cin (1991)
The Browning Version (1994)
Taking Sides (2001)
The Pianist (2002)
The Statement (2003)
Being Julia (2004)
Oliver Twist (2005)
Le Scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Australia (2008)