Madeleine Stowe quotes Born: 08/18/1958 Country: usa

• 20th had huge doubts about LOTM during the editing and testing process. This went on for months. Audiences were appalled with the violence. (Madeleine Stowe) [process]
• As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated. (Madeleine Stowe) [awkward/think]
• Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/concentration]
• Daniel and I simply expressed what we felt was appropriate for the scene and Dante Spinotti had an innate sense of where to place the camera. And as I remembered, he used a hand-held to get a sense of raw beauty. (Madeleine Stowe) [beauty]
• Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well. (Madeleine Stowe) [partner]
• David kept nagging me, saying that he fully believed in the project. I read it twice more, then finally sat down with Michael to discuss the film. (Madeleine Stowe) [more/film]
• Difficulty also creates its own kind of beauty, I suppose. And while I don't revisit it unless asked, there is this sense of apartness I felt during that period of time from our own world. (Madeleine Stowe) [beauty/time]
• For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/method]
• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later. (Madeleine Stowe) [moment/being/right]
• He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's. (Madeleine Stowe) [decision]
• I cannot tell you where my interpretation of Cora began and Michael's ended. I often times felt as if he were in the scenes with us, such was his imprint. So when I said, "I feel like everything I tried to do is there", it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. (Madeleine Stowe)
• I don't really recall the Uncas and Alice relationship very well as written. Somewhere, I have the memory of making some kind of joke about "A romance for everyone", but it seems to me, that there was to be an attraction that was never acted upon between the two characters. (Madeleine Stowe) [memory/joke/attraction]
• I don't recall who taught me how to fire the flint-lock, I apologize. We had fantastic crew members like Mickey Pew, the propmaster, who could produce anything Michael asked for with a "Mickey Pew, with you, sir". (Madeleine Stowe)
• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/eyes/character/respect]
• I have this recollection of feeling a kind of shock when I arrived in Asheville. An entire hillside had been deforested in order to build the fort. That gave me a bit of a jolt, and I instantly started jumping to all kinds of conclusions about this huge machine which had started rolling. (Madeleine Stowe) [feeling/order]
• I know that Michael met with the studio again and drew the line. In any event, Joe Roth was very proud of the film and the studio had a happy ending. (Madeleine Stowe) [film]
• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines. (Madeleine Stowe) [time/film/support]
• I remember Eric sitting in the outer office. He was a striking and interesting young man and someone was asking him if it was appropriate to say "Native American" when referring to his people and he said, "No. Indian". (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/office/people]
• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/feeling/moment/experience]
• I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/reading/situation]
• I remember that she had these lovely eyelids, lovely eyes, and was still on that border of shedding a kind of gawkiness. She's spectacular on that cliff with Wes. I saw her a year later and she'd completely grown up. The transition was made and she was beguiling. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/eyes]
• I remember the day vividly and how proud Russell felt to be an actor. Something clicked in him as he gave his last speech, and he was so happy. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/day/speech]
• I thought what an interesting choice Waddington was for Duncan. Such a complete surprise to me. While I didn't know it at the time, Daniel had suggested to Michael that I play Cora before we had ever met. (Madeleine Stowe) [choice/surprise/time]
• I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life. (Madeleine Stowe) [more/time/love/life]
• I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested. (Madeleine Stowe) [remember/more/nostalgia/day]
• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece. (Madeleine Stowe) [action/rage/action/film]
• It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down. (Madeleine Stowe) [exception/movie/problem/point]
• It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did. (Madeleine Stowe) [think/love/being]
• Jodhi was very young, 16, I think. Highly gifted, and at an age where she may have felt a bit isolated. She was also very bright and it was important that one not speak to her as a child. (Madeleine Stowe) [think/age/speak/child]
• Kellie was newly widowed, had grown up around horses all her life, and could hook up a trailer and drive her rig better than any man. She became my very close friend, and I'm godmother to her first-born. (Madeleine Stowe) [life]
• Michael insisted that the accent be less formal and more in keeping with what he called the "rhythms" I had used in my initial reading. Wanting things to be right, I've always been troubled by that decision. Michael responds to things emotionally and his instincts had to be trusted. (Madeleine Stowe) [more/reading/right/decision]

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