George Cukor Quotes

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• You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
• You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in…
• Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
• But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
• It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
• Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
• When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it…
• Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.
• As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft…
• So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter…
• You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
• I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
• I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then…
• I was a stage-struck kid.
• Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.
• If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

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