Arthur Hiller(1923-2016)

Died just twelve days before his Silver Streak (1976) and See No Evil, Hear no Evil (1989) star, Gene Wilder.

[on Roma città aperta (1945)] It was all that neorealism; it just caught me at the right time. I can't even remember, but I know there were a few films at that time, neorealist films, that they were doing in Europe that we were not doing here. It just felt so real to me and so good. I didn't jump and say, "Oh, I want to make movies like that," but I guess I was feeling that without realizing it. The same as when I finally woke up and said, "I want to be a director."