George Stevens Quotes

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I've always wanted to be behind the camera in some capacity.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.