"As a professional, it pains me to watch……" — George Cukor
"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 and their ideas."
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16 Quotes by George Cukor
George Cukor has 16 quotes on this site.
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You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
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You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you…
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Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
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But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
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It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the…
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Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
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When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you…
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Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.
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So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how…
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You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
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I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
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I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I…
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More Amateurish Quotes
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one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
— Edward Abbey
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Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was…
— Legs McNeil
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward…
— Wallace Stegner
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General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
— Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out…
— Ben E. King
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music…
— Patti Smith
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I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way,…
— Johnny Weir
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
— Susan Sontag
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The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But…
— Kevin Ayers
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We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now,…
— Lev Yilmaz
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