American - Producer | July 7, 1899 - January 24, 1983
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
George Cukor
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You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
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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.
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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.
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You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
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It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
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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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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.
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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.
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I was a stage-struck kid.
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We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.
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