George Cukor Quotes

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
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 and their ideas.
From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
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 keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.
I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
I was a stage-struck kid.
Kid
I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.
If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.
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 or arrange a shot.
The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
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George Cukor
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07 July, 1899
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24 January, 1983
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