Jerry Schatzberg

“Here it is, On the Waterfront. Great film. And I loved his work. I think I worked a lot like him because he was honest, he was open, he wasn't playing games, he was just doing films and always told the truth. He was an honest director. That's the way I feel I am, I'm an honest director.”

“One of my favorites, 'Round Midnight. First of all, it's a film full of jazz and the music is sensational. But it's also a story. You don't usually get a story with jazz, they usually are documentaries and you see the musician, wonderful music, but this is a really terrific story and I loved it. I always loved it.”

“The Shooting. Now this is a film that was written by Carol Eastman, but she took the name Adrien Joyce because it had more literary indications. It was a low-budget film and it's very well crafted by Monte Hellman, who I got to be friendly with because of Carol. And she was also friendly with Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. I remember when Carol died, Nicholson did a speech talking about her and it was just beautiful. A great loss to us.”

“Is this Shanghai Express here? Oh yeah, Shanghai Express. A wonderful film. She was so beautiful and I was a fashion photographer and I'd see her photograph and I'd see her come on the screen, she was so beautiful. And I think a lot of my photographs of women were copied from what I'd see, the photographs that were taken of her, Marlene Dietrich.”

“I'm happy to take this Varda collection home. It'll take a lot of my time. That's wonderful. I remember going with Agnès to a museum. There was an artwork of a nun sitting on a chair and Agnès walked in there and they just seemed to go together and I took a wonderful photograph of Agnès standing next to the nun in the chair. It's one of my favorite photographs.”