I.B. George Quotes

Angie, I've seen my mom wrestle two cops to the ground with a taser dart in her neck, and you cry when your shoes pinch. Good luck, Bambi!

I prefer my Mexican food to have a little bit of an animal that suffered a little bit. That's some of the best food.

Max: What's a period? George: It's a bullet we dodge, go get ready.

It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.

Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina!

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this."

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.

They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.