Charlton Heston Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

  Charlton Heston

  Rose, Baths, Hollywood

• Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Example, Sometimes

• In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

  Charlton Heston

  Fire, Government, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Raw Materials, Film

• Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

  Charlton Heston

  Powerful, Successful, Political

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

• The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

  Charlton Heston

  Sound, Eras, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.

  Charlton Heston

  Sex, Thinking, Tolerance

• The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Motivation, Film

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

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