Adam Arkin
American actor and director
American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (1904-1975)
George Cooper Stevenswas an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. He received two Academy Awards and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953.
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Jack Stevens
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Yvonne Howell
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George Stevens, Jr.
About the George Stevens
George Cooper Stevenswas an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. He received two Academy Awards and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953.
He won the Academy Award for Best Director for A Place in the Sun (1951), and Giant (1956). He was also Oscar-nominated for The Talk of the Town, The More the Merrier (1943), Shane (1953), and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). Among his most notable films are Swing Time (1936), Gunga Din (1939), Woman of the Year (1942), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
4 Quotes by George Stevens
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The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
George StevensAmerican film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (1904-1975)
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For me it’s absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can’t think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.
George StevensAmerican film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (1904-1975)
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I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality… That’s a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
George StevensAmerican film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (1904-1975)
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I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
George StevensAmerican film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (1904-1975)