George Stevens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
-
Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
-
I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
-
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
-
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
-
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
-
I always say the greats just get better.
-
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
-
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
-
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
-
The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
-
When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
-
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
-
I blog because I have something to say.
-
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
-
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
-
When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
-
People are going to say what they want to say.
-
If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, 'Do it.'
-
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.
-
People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.
-
You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
-
When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
-
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
