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My father said something
very interesting about filmmaking.
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He was a director.
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But he said,
if you divide filmmaking into three parts...
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the preparation of the script, casting,
and all of the things that go before...
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the second is directing the actors
and the actual shooting of the film...
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and the third being...
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the editing, all of the postproduction,
the publicity and the release of the film.
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He said, "If you put a gun to my head
and said you have to give up...
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"one of those three functions..."
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he said, "I'd give up the directing."
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He said, "If the script is right,
and they shoot some film...
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"and I can get in the editing room with it,
I can make it work."
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In Hollywood,
a new high for glamour is reached...
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as Warner Brothers premieres
George Stevens' production Giant...
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based on the novel by Edna Ferber.
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An unprecedented turnout
of more than 2,000 screen celebrities...
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other noted personalities
and press representatives arrive...
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at the famed Chinese Theater
on Hollywood Boulevard...
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in a formal, invitational event
that dazzles 10,000 spectators...
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under a canopy
ofsky-reaching searchlights.
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Three great star names in Giant...
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Elizabeth Taylor...
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Rock Hudson, James Dean.
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And here in the forecourt of the theater...
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are the footprints and handprints
ofGiant's stars...
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and producer/director, George Stevens.
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George had always tried
to do stories with great conscience.
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A Place in the Sun was
a tremendous moral story.
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Shane was a wonderful film.
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He was a distinctly American director.
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He had a sense of the country
and a sense of the land.