The Pink Panther Story (2003 Video)

Blake Edwards: Self

Quotes 

• Blake Edwards : If I'm gonna make a film, particularly that kind of a film, I'd like to make it in places that have great restaurants at night and great hotels to stay in, and places I have not been before.

• Blake Edwards : An agent suggested Peter Sellers. I was unaware of Peter Sellers except for one film that he had done to that point, which was a film called, "I'm All Right Jack." And I thought, a pudgy, kind of cockney, and he said, no, no, that's the character he played. He's, and they gave me his whole history, and I was kinda desperate at that point. So I said, well okay, let's take a shot at it

• Blake Edwards : [On Shot in the Dark]  Sellers was supposed to do it; and he didn't wanna do it. He was desperate not to do it. And he came to me and said 'I don't like the whole set up and can't you step in.

• Blake Edwards : Well, "Shot in the Dark" was... was an unintentional Clouseau. It was originally a play, a Broadway play, with Walter Matthau, and it didn't resemble the film really, the film, at all.

• Blake Edwards : There were good times and bad times. The good times were as good as it could ever get -- more fun, more joy, in the good times. And, the bad times might just as well have been like going to the doctor and having him tell you, well, I'm sorry, but you're terminal.

• Blake Edwards : [On Peter Seller]  In the first film, he has all the physical fun. He didn't have the action... . Peter went to Paris for a weekend - disappeared. We didn't know where he was. Came back, and when I was just about ready to chew his ass, which happened quite frequently, he says, I ran into a concierge in Paris who talks like this, so I said we gotta use it

• Blake Edwards : We dealt creatively with the Mirisches, and the Mirisches said, look, you're good enough for us to hire you. You go make the movies, let us take care of United Artists.