George Axelrod at the NFT talking to Leslie Hardcastle and members of the National Film Theatre, at a John Player Lecture, about his career as a screen writer, producer, director and introducing scenes from
Bus Stop (1956)
'When I first went to Hollywood writers were regarded as the lowest form of human life...'
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
'I wrote it originally for Marilyn Monroe as I wrote everything in those days...'
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
'One of the few films that went from failure to classic without ever passing through success'
Lord Luv a Duck (1965)
'It's a picture about the teenage soul: I made it to get my own back on my kids...'
The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)
'In order to spend three million dollars of somebody's money it requires a certain arrogance - simple and unaffected arrogance...'