Vidor Quotes

#1. This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

Anne Wilkes Tucker

#2. The bear would have to be stopped," Grandma agreed. "Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn't blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.

Brandon Mull

#3. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

Julie Murphy

#4. The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

King Vidor

#5. The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.

Uwe Boll

#6. I'm so excited. I love radio and being on the new Mix 102.9.

Khloe Kardashian

#7. The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director ... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.

King Vidor

#8. The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.

King Vidor

#9. You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.

Ed Vargo

#10. Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

King Vidor

#11. Teddy bears are best because they understand it's nice to be alone.

Sloane Crosley

#12. The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

Simon Sinek

#13. In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.

King Vidor

#14. A simple story filmed with limited sets can often be more effective than a costly extravaganza. provided it had depth and allows the audience to identify with the character.

King Vidor

#15. The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

B.F. Skinner

#16. A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

David Heyman

#17. The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Peter Abelard

#18. No matter where I go, I always make friends at the bridge table

Martina Navratilova

#19. Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

King Vidor

#20. Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

Brian Tracy

#21. There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is to make some contributions, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress.

King Vidor

#22. I don't understand how IMDB works. I don't know who logs in the information. I've checked it a couple times and saw (something he was supposed to be listed in) that I wasn't in there, and thought, "Well, I'm not gonna put it in there".

Ken Marino