CATEGORY: HONORARY OSCAR
INTERVIEW WITH: ROBERT BOYLE

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Q. Mr. Boyle, congratulations. You've seen so many changes in this business and in this town, I'm wondering if there's anything that you especially miss from the business that you knew when you were younger or that you especially like about the business today.
A. Well, there's nothing to like or dislike about the business today for me because actually, I I didn't keep up with the business. I'm an absolute dummy with a computer. I have one, but I don't really know how to use it. And I I'm I've come from the the old studio system with kind of hands on work and that was my background. And most of the films that people know about were done without benefit of computer generation. So, I can't speak to what's happening today so much, but I do think that I miss the community that we had then. People seemed to be working together more in those days. They are more separate these days, and that's what I regret, is that the community we had seems to be getting more separate.

Q. Hi, Bob. I had the great pleasure of interviewing you 30 years ago as my first professional interview, and you told me a lot about some of this the roots of the business. I understand, though, that you still keep in touch with the Art Directors Guild, and what advice would you give to young art directors, production designers, working today and faced with different technological challenges but still the same as far as telling the story visually?
A. Well, I think you have the tools now that you can do anything. Unfortunately, very often you do everything. I think what you need is to remember that discipline in art is also very important. The things you don't say are sometimes as important as what you do do say. And if you do too much, you destroy the point you are trying to make. I am that's I just would like to see more discipline in the general construction of films and theatre, generally.

Q. Hi. Congratulations. When we see those clips of your work go by, you can hear people gasping and the memories they have just as seeing them in movies. With each of those clips, do you have stories that play in your head? When you see Cary Grant, do you have memories of people like that, working with them?
A. Oh, I you were speaking of Cary Grant. That was with Hitchcock films, and those were always exciting and wonderful to revisit, and they still seem to hold up. They haven't been denigrated by the passage of time, and some of them like North by Northwest, for instance, or The Birds, still have the energy to entertain. And that's what we are up to.

Q. It's often said that Alfred Hitchcock planned everything and started his films in advance and didn't deviate from that while filming. Could you comment on that?
A. Oh, he would deviate, but you are correct in saying he his preparation time was very important to him and to all of us who worked with him. We tried to get all the kinks worked out very early in the preparatory stage of filming, and...

Q. They are not laughing at you, they are listening to the show.
A. Okay. And that was about it. It was he did prepare thoroughly, and he enjoyed the preparation period more than in a way, I think, than the shooting period. It was ideas that and ideas for scenes that he loved, and those of us who worked with him enjoyed that too.

Q. Thank you very much, Mr. Boyle. Congratulations.

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