Interview of the Day

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn spoke to Barbara Lovenheim of The New York Times in September 1987 about the differences between modern films and the films of her generation, the importance of writers in filmmaking, and the opportunities for women in film.

“It’s gone from storytelling to shock—or a series of shocks,” she said about filmmaking. “It seems a kind of sadism and thrashing depravity of people’s private lives—and you just go mad. Because if sex reduces itself to four-letter words and visual stimulation, that is sad, because love and excitement are so far away from that. What can life be if we see no beauty in it? What magic is it that makes us like and trust and slave for someone? I have found a lot more excitement and wonder and beauty in life than is now being handed to me in films.”

Additional Interview with Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn was featured on a January 1979 episode of CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which showed the 71-year-old riding her bike through the streets of Manhattan’s East Side. She told Morley Safer that old age is miserable, that modern films were “filth,” and that she chose not to attend the Academy Awards out of a fear of losing.

To learn more about Katharine Hepburn, read her profile on findingDulcinea.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright appeared on “The Mike Wallace Interview” in September 1957 and expressed his often controversial views on politics and morality, his disdain for the “common man,” and his architectural philosophies.

“I’ve been accused of saying I was the greatest architect in the world,” he said, “and if I had said so, I don’t think it would be very arrogant because I don’t believe there are many, if any. For five hundred years what we call architecture has been phony. … In the sense that it was not innate, it wasn’t organic; it didn't have the character of Nature.”

To learn more about Frank Lloyd Wright, read his profile on findingDulcinea.