George Stevens Quotes

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews a director of a movie that didn't perform well in the box office, and he says, 'The audience didn't understand my movie.' If people didn't go to buy the ticket, then you did the wrong movie.

You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

I want to be associated with good entertainment.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I don't think hype always works. It can get you initial audience, but eventually, it's your story, and the characters need to hold audience's attention.

Strictly' has evolved - there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We're not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it's an entertainment show.

You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

One thing Vince McMahon does, and he does a lot of things great, but he knows how to create great television, very compelling television.

Perhaps there's a lot of quality television that's not right for the individual who needs questions answered in each episode, and perhaps reality television may be a better option. With the integrity of HBO and their drive to tell stories, it takes time to arrive at any sort of answers.

Good films will run, and people will watch it irrespective of whether it is suspense or a comedy.

Good films with great content is what I dream about.

I work on my technique, but when I do a video, I want people to be amazed by the speed or the power. The casual fans don't care if your hands are up or your hands are down.