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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
— Preston Sturges
What I'm good at is making art.
— Jock Sturges
Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
— Preston Sturges
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
— Jock Sturges
JEANBoy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
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Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. — Preston Sturges
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
— Preston Sturges
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
— Jock Sturges
We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics Henry Sturges- vampire
— Seth Grahame-Smith
You know, Maude ... somebody meeting you for the first time not knowing you were cracked
might get the wrong impression of you. — Preston Sturges
If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.
— Preston Sturges
Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.
— Preston Sturges
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
— Preston Sturges
You people with your quests annoy the pants off me.
— Matthew Sturges
I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.
— Preston Sturges
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
— Jock Sturges
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
— Jock Sturges
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
— Jock Sturges
If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
— Preston Sturges
I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.
— Preston Sturges
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
— Jock Sturges
When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.
— Preston Sturges
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
— Jock Sturges
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
— Jock Sturges
That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.
— Preston Sturges
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
— Jock Sturges
It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
— Preston Sturges
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
— Jock Sturges
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
— Jock Sturges
What do you expect me to do i am a pirate not a ninja!" - Annie, The House of Mystery
— Matthew Sturges
In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.
— Preston Sturges
A story should have a point, but a life doesn't need one. It just needs to be lived.
— Matthew Sturges
I should have had the pickle.
— Preston Sturges
The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
— Jock Sturges
The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.
— Preston Sturges
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
— Jock Sturges
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
— Jock Sturges
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
— Jock Sturges
I always was and always will be optimistic.
— Preston Sturges
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
— Jock Sturges
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
— Jock Sturges
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
— Jock Sturges
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
— Jock Sturges
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
— Jock Sturges
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.
— Preston Sturges
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
— Jock Sturges
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
— Jock Sturges
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
— Jock Sturges
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
— Jock Sturges
Don't be alarmed, Mr. Sturges. Some of my closest friends are dead.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.
— Preston Sturges
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
— Preston Sturges
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
— Jock Sturges
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
— Jock Sturges
