Richard Lester Quotes

I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn’t realise and what people don’t understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.

– Richard Lester

Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day’s Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it.

– Richard Lester

Hard Day’s Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we’d even finished shooting – The advance sales on the album – the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

– Richard Lester

The title came rather early in one of Ringo’s more tired and emotional moments.

– Richard Lester

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

– Richard Lester

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