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Ronald Harwood

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Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.


— Ronald Harwood


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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.


— Ronald Harwood


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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.


— Ronald Harwood


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


— Ronald Harwood


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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.


— Ronald Harwood


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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


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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.


— Ronald Harwood


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About Ronald Harwood






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Recognition
Harwood was president of the English PEN Club from 1989 to 1993 and of PEN International from 1993 to 1997. Day. Harwood received his third Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2007 for his adaptation of the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby The Diving Bell and the Butterfly for which he also won a BAFTA and the Prix Jacques Prevert Du Scenario 2008 for Best Adaptation.

He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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