George Stevens Quotes
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For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.
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My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.
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When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.
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Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
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I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
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I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
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The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.
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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.
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I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.