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“I decided that we were going to call him Rip Van Marlowe, as if he’d been asleep for 20 years, had woken up & was wandering through this landscape of the early 1970s, but trying to invoke the morals of a previous era.“
-Robert Altman
-Robert Altman
“Bob called me and told me the whole opening of the film as he was envisioning it, the whole sequence with Marlowe and his cat. He loved that. He said, ‘This is what the picture is about!’”
-Elliott Gould thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-g…
-Elliott Gould thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-g…
“I thought we should go for John Huston… until Sterling Hayden showed up. My god, Sterling fucking Hayden!” 
“We practically never knew what Sterling Hayden was going to do. We made marks on the floor so just in case he hit that mark we knew where the focus would be.”
-Vilmos Zsigmond (cinematographer on THE LONG GOODBYE)
-Vilmos Zsigmond (cinematographer on THE LONG GOODBYE)
hello original french poster for THE LONG GOODBYE
