To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it. Ellen Burstyn dragfilmmoral Change image and share on social
She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck. Ellen Burstyn badfairlyfat share on social
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed. Ellen Burstyn killliterallynewspaper Change image and share on social
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time. Ellen Burstyn findfreshinterest Change image and share on social
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn discoverfinallylovely Change image and share on social
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left. Ellen Burstyn aheaddirectorgood Change image and share on social
It's a sin to have your films not to make money. Ellen Burstyn filmmakemoney Change image and share on social
Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high. Ellen Burstyn filmhighleave Change image and share on social
I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt. Ellen Burstyn businessdifficultdirector share on social
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far. Ellen Burstyn centralchildfilm Change image and share on social
