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George Stevens
George Stevens
American Director
Born: Dec 18, 1904
Died: Mar 8, 1975
Being Me People Time Work You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
Three takes. You're either going to get it, or you're not going to get it. There's no use persisting; it just had to work that way. George Stevens
Work You Three Way Had Takes Get Going Just Either Use
The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument. George Stevens
People Instrument Always Camera
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience. George Stevens
Remember Seen Too Respected Those Degradation Audience Intended Being Anything Should Less Who Film Presented
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal. George Stevens
Thought Say Scandal Something Could Might Turned
I'm interested in all the new ideas, such as 3-D and widescreen, but I don't believe the technical method of presentation is the real important thing. George Stevens
Important Believe New Ideas New Ideas Important Thing Real Method Interested Technical Thing Presentation
Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts. George Stevens
Picture Matters Only Counts Goes Screen
I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible. George Stevens
Work Films Possible See Like Singular Personally Consciousness
It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of moviemaking. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film. George Stevens
Time You Values Paraphernalia Poem More Delicate Vast Write Emotional Put Head Like Executive Another Traffic Handle Get Trying Same Human Same Time Sensitive Moviemaking Film Cop Need
I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves. George Stevens
Truth Learning Took Rapture About Absolutely Over Because Audience Sounds Were Truly Quiet Quietly Moved Theater Them Themselves Held Communion Fascinated Play
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do. George Stevens
Work Photography People Further Pleasure Would Photographing Some Had Pictures Like Liked Qualified Greatest Got Making Greatest Pleasure Westerns Done Anything Them Really Working Away Ever Hepburn Thing Started Starting

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