GIANT

George Stevens, director; "In every word and every move there was something poetic. I still got the feeling
that he was crazy, dedicated to a source of inspirationop I can’t define...and neither he nor somebody else
can’t find out what it was. Behind his glasses he blinked with his eyes when he felt guilty, after doing
something stupid. This was the way for him to show that he had done something that wouldn’t do, he took it
personally. His ambition knew no bounds, he had developed a civilized lack of responsebillity. "It’s not easy
for you", he seemed to say, "but that’s the way I have to do it". It’s very difficult, for a director, to work
with such a person.
James Dean in discussion with George Stevens; "Are you finished raging? Let me tell you one thing. I’m no machine.
I’m working in a factory, but I’m no machine. I stayed awake whole fridaynight to do the scene. I have prepared
myself whole night. I was here on time to do my job and you let me hanging around all day. Do you realise that I
have to recall emotional memories? I work with my senses...with what I see, hear, smell and feel? Let me tell you,
for every day you let me wait, I need two days! After that three and then four. You’ll take charge of that. You
won’t stop me for doing my job. Let’s go back to the set. There’s nothing much to say.........."

Rock Hudson had much difficulty with James Dean, couldn’t deal with him (his opponents didn’t see that James did
everything for the best of the movie). Rock; "Before appearing on the set, he always did a warming-up, like a boxer.
He always reached the camera jumping hy in the sky or running at full speed, screaming like a of prey. All the time
I worked with him, I never heard a normal word from him. He always seemed to be angry about something. I didn’t like
Dean. He was such a pain in the ass. He hated George Stevens, didn’t find him a good director, he was always angry
and looked upon him with contempt. He never smiled. He was sulky and had no manners."
James Dean; "Stevens is a born film-maker. He is so sincere, so modest, he sees everything.We have a wonderfull
scenario for this movie. If Hollywood wants, it can do amazing things. This movie can be an example of it. I really
hope so."
When James Dean discovers the tape recorder; "Fantastisc, such an enormeous help for my work. When I had to play
Jet Rink, I had tapes with people who spoke with a Texan accent. It’s all about not to exaggerate the grovelling...
it has to be just right."
William Mellor ,cameraman; "In front of the camera, he always had a creepy intuition. I can’t remember, working with
somebody who had the same talent. He was standing in the shadow, raising his head into the light. When we were
explaining him what to do, it seemed immedeately like he had prepared it onto the half inch. He knew what to do,
without rehearsel." "Look at me very carefully", James said to him, "you may probably never have the change again."
Elizabeth Taylor; "It was a surprising experience working with Jimmy. You felt the character came alive, he became
the person he played. He had complete concentration.”

Review from Time magazine; Of all the cast, it was James Dean who made his evil character to the strongest and
venomous one of the movie. Dean playes the odd rascal in a destinguished frightening way...with a kind of sneaky,
inconventional apathy and jabbering use of language...totally based on grudge. This is the spooky award of the short
career of James Dean.
New York Times; James Dean, who die in an accident two weeks ago, after finishing his last scene of Giant, shows in
this movie for the first time (and for the last time), what his admirers always said….he owns a little bit of genius.
He made himself familiar with the Texan accent in a perfect nasal way. In a scene with Caroll Baker, Dean succeeded
to press an astonishing series of subtle in the mood of the moment and so he creates the best spoken acting performance
ever on the white screen, since the scene of (the brothers) Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in On the Waterfront.