I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos. Preston Sturges More Quotes by Preston Sturges More Quotes From Preston Sturges Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together. Preston Sturges god science people religion I always was and always will be optimistic. Preston Sturges will always optimistic 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 go me real life The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight. Preston Sturges stand will you love How many years and how many pictures does it take to win the confidence of Paramount? How many years before my fellow workers say, 'I know he is doing his best?' Preston Sturges pictures best win confidence I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations. Preston Sturges great man hero long I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character. Preston Sturges i-am man character men The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent. Preston Sturges great difficult grateful way I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. Preston Sturges out architecture theory literature 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 movies early automobile horse I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail. Preston Sturges ride drive good horse The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut. Preston Sturges camera moment you law
