W. L. George Quotes

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.

You can't put a title card at the head of the movie and say, "Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane."

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.

A woman's noblest station is retreat.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.