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Director and writer Alan Rudolph

Biography

Alan Rudolph

Overview

  • Born
    December 18, 1943 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Mini bio

  • Alan Rudolph was born on December 18, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Trouble in Mind (1985), Choose Me (1984) and Afterglow (1997). He is married to Joyce Rudolph.

Family

  • Spouse
      Joyce Rudolph(? - present)

Trademarks

  • Often casts Keith Carradine and Geneviève Bujold.
  • Frequently casts Gailard Sartain.
  • Often uses music by Mark Isham.

Trivia

  • Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Julie Christie in Afterglow (1997).
  • Son of director Oscar Rudolph
  • Was complicit in allowing the death of Sondra Locke (1944-2018) to go unreported for a month and a half.
  • Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006.

Quotes

  • [on working with Bruce Willis and Demi Moore on Mortal Thoughts (1991)] I was working with a pair of real life love birds who were trying to kill each other in the film. It was like hanging out with schizophrenics.
  • You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.
  • You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.
  • Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
  • Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

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