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.
From George Cukor
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.
You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
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.
You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.
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