Screens Quotes - Page 22

• Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.

  Ernest Lehman

  Decision, Information, Scene

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• Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life....As a side note, running Windows Vista on the Panasonic w7 is making me really nostalgic for 1986. Whoever thought I'd get to type things then stare at a blank screen for a bit and one-by-one watch the letters appear? Cory and Mike's 'Why Don't You Run Linux?' talks are staring to seem much more sensible.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Love Of My Life, Watches

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• The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  "Michael Arndt Digs Into 'Toy Story 3' and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 7, 2010.

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• I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't.

  Declan Lynch

  Sex, Soul, Facts

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• Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that seeks to break free of parochialism and think about where and why and what we are without the language of religion... I loved Sunshine for its radical proposal that humans can and will do something about a catastrophe, and that our weapons could be used up in the service of preservation.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Sunshine, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Sunshine" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2007.

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• I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

  Mae West

  Black And White, Sound, World

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• All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color - it's all bunk. There's no such thing as a 'just' wage. There's only what you earn.

  Doug Casey

  Jobs, Thinking, Skin Color

  "Doug Casey on Judging Justices". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I'm a great believer in conversational rhythm. I think in terms of rhythmic dialogue. It's so easy, you can talk naturally. It's like peas rolling off a knife. Take the great screen actors and actresses, Bette Davis, Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy. They all talk in rhythm. And rhythm and movement are the life of the screen.

  Lorenz Hart

  Thinking, Knives, Rolling

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• I don't know if any of you feel this way, but it's like eventually, you see a woman come on screen and you go, "Oh, thank God!" You just sort of need a break from all this testosterone, which happened, I think, in one of my films, The Hurt Locker. I was in it for like five minutes, and people were like, "You were in that movie!" And I was like, "Well, kind of." And they were like, "No, you were!" 'Cause they needed a woman!

  Evangeline Lilly

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case we'd go in every couple weeks and look at animatic and sketches. The way they do it - is they'll put it up on a screen and the storyboard artist who worked on that sequence will talk you through it. Kind of like a pitch session. Then they would leave and we would sit there with the directors and say 'Alright - what if we change that? What if we do that?' It's very different from live action.

  Jonathan M. Goldstein

  Couple, Artist, What If

  Source: collider.com

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• We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's really just an extension of that habit which is trying to tell the reader what the movie will look like. Ultimately that is the job of a screenwriter to a certain extent.

  John Francis Daley

  Jobs, Trying, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.

  Michel Auder

  Theatre, Looks, Tvs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My casting process was slightly different and slightly interesting insofar as I knew everybody could act. That's something you've seen. You know people can. You've seen them on the screen and you think either they're a good actor or a bad actor. So that's not the point. What I wanted to do was find people who I thought would have a similar comic sensibility.

  Dan Mazer

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons of acquisitions people, and the fate of your film in some ways, if not decided, is really affected by how it screens that night.

  James Ponsoldt

  Fate, Night, People

  Source: collider.com

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• But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.

  Lizzo

  Race, People, Feminist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she's just this person who blows out of the screen. She's just incredible.

  Adam Shankman

  Queens, Character, Blow

  Source: collider.com

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• The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Ignorance, Games, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

  James Mangold

  Laughing, Black, Majesty

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

  James Mangold

  Perfect, Levels, Taste

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm on the set, I take five minutes to find the best angle for a scene, and then we just shoot it and it looks exactly what you see on screen because I don't touch it afterwards. I never think about it, before being on the set. That's my thing. I love to be stuck.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Thinking, Looks, Things I Love

  Source: collider.com

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• My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.

  Bill Walsh

  Trying, Pixels, Lists

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Value investing strategies have worked for years and everyone's known about them. They continue to work because it's hard for people to do, for two main reasons. First, the companies that show up on the screens can be scary and not doing so well, so people find them difficult to buy. Second, there can be one-, two- or three-year periods when a strategy like this doesn't work. Most people aren't capable of sticking it out through that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Two, Years, People

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• If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.

  Jacques Ellul

  Real, Games, Play

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• On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

  Lawrence Reed

  People, Heartless, Stripes

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