Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller, OCis a United States-based Canadian television and film director, having directed over 33 major films during his 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s he began directing films, most often comedies. He also directed award-winning dramas and romantic subjects, such as Love Story, which was nominated for seven Oscars...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 November 1923
CityEdmonton, Canada
CountryCanada
We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.
Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.
Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.
It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.
We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.
I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just before the film went into general release.