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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 Stevens

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 Stevens

When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.

George Stevens

George Stevens

George Stevens

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Born: December 18, 1904

Died: March 8, 1975 (aged 70)

Bio: George Cooper Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.

Known for:

Shane (1953)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Giant (1956)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

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