King Vidor
King Vidor
King Wallis Vidorwas an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator." He was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar, and won eight international film awards during his career. Vidor's best known films include The Big Parade, The Crowd, Stella Dallas, and Duel in the Sun...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth8 February 1894
CountryUnited States of America
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.
In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.
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.
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.
In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.
Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.
The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.
The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.