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  • "I wonder if his success with Sydney had taken off the edge," Mr. Pakula said.

    A Distant Star 2011

  • Because what Werner Herzog and Alan J. Pakula did for me when I was just out of college was simple.

    Jennie Livingston: Queer/Art/Mentorship: How Mentoring Emerging Queer Artists Helps Them... And Me Jennie Livingston 2011

  • The late Alan Pakula told Mr. Callan that he thought that something corrosive happened with the specific success of 'The Way We Were' 1973.

    A Distant Star 2011

  • Because what Werner Herzog and Alan J. Pakula did for me when I was just out of college was simple.

    Jennie Livingston: Queer/Art/Mentorship: How Mentoring Emerging Queer Artists Helps Them... And Me Jennie Livingston 2011

  • Someone saw an early screening and liked what they saw—a few days later my phone rang in Houston—I was then back at Rice—and a voice asked politely whether I would be available to come to Hollywood and talk with a producer named Alan J. Pakula about a film he wanted to make about the Natchez Trace.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • At the time I had never heard of Alan J. Pakula, but, to be fair, except for the late Mike Todd, I had never really heard of any producer.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Explained Pakula, The Parallax View brought out all my personal pessimism—I heard the first Watergate and CIA rumblings on the car radio daily as I was driving to work on it.

    STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

  • Alan Pakula had his film to make and I had a plane to catch.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • WHEN I FIRST visited Alan Pakula he was chiefly a producer; his then current project, Inside Daisy Clover, was adapted from a novel of the same name by the English screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Many years later, in another time, Alan Pakula made up for this lapse by buying me a very expensive breakfast in New York.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

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