Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by King Vidor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American director King Vidor.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose 67-year film-making career successfully spanned the silent and sound eras. His works are distinguished by a vivid, humane, and sympathetic depiction of contemporary social issues. Considered an auteur director, Vidor approached multiple genres and allowed the subject matter to determine the style, often pressing the limits of film-making conventions.

American - Director | February 8, 1894 - November 1, 1982

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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

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.

King Vidor

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

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

King Vidor

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

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

King Vidor

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

King Vidor

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

King Vidor

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

King Vidor