Kim Hunter

Professions :

Born :

November 12, 1922

Died :

September 11, 2002

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.

capture meditation believe

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.

black-and-white eye heart

It's hard to compare actors from different generations. by Kim Hunter

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

generations actors different

Some things a lady doesn't tell. by Kim Hunter

Some things a lady doesn't tell.

The terrible thing about being blacklisted as an actress was that even though, intellectually, you knew what was happening, you still always wondered whether you weren't being hired because you weren't any good.

actresses terrible stills

My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple.

simple hair love

I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man. by Kim Hunter

I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man.

nice remember men

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

pills doctors writing

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

king queen circle cinema

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

you violence joy sex

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

man language problem time

Isabella Rossellini

Izabella Scorupco

Betty Buckley

Bipasha Basu

Butterfly McQueen

Bryce Dallas Howard