Motion Pictures Quotes - Page 4

• The motion picture is the people's Art.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Movie, Art, People

  Adela Rogers St. Johns (1979). “Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story”

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• I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

  Glenn Ford

  Silly, Wind, Actors

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• The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Lasts, Strategy, Negotiation

  John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.134, Zola Books

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• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Distracted, Muddle

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• When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

  Gary Gygax

  Running, Moving, Rpgs

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• Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

  Gene Kelly

  Two, Dancing, Three

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• We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Powerful, Air, Goes On

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• The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Past, Mind, Experience

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.42, Celestial Arts

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• I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Believe, Flower

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

  Walt Disney

  Jobs, Team, People

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• We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Heart, Emotional

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• If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

  Orson Welles

  Art, Writing, Want

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• John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

  John Badham

  Sound, Brilliant, Spectrum

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• Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's
  home TV receiver?

  Jack Gould

  Running, Home, Tvs

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• The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Looks, Film, Bigs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Mean, Kids

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• In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Art, America, Hollywood

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• There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Men, Library

  "Exploiting the Gender Gap". www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2005.

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• For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Presidential, Misunderstood, Television

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• I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

  Tippi Hedren

  Grateful, Careers, Acting

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• I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

  Gene Kelly

  Mediums, Wanted, New Things

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• The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

  David Letterman

  Art, Sunday, Awards

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• Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

  Fred Seibert

  Real, Player, Rocks

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

  Zack Snyder

  Reality, Irony, Reason

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2010.

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• If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

  Jo Coudert

  Notebook, Meaningful, Running

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.99, iUniverse

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