Motion Pictures Quotes - Page 5

• Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

  King Louie

  Kings, Life Is Like, Rhyme

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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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• Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

  William Goldman

  Fields, Lucky, Certainty

  William Goldman (2012). “Adventures in the Screen Trade”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

  Spencer Johnson

  Doctors, California, Parent

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• Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.

  Michael Eisner

  Needs, Goes On, Television

  "On the web, content is king". Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

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• Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Years, This Generation

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.72, Grove Press

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• I've had the opportunity to work on a number of just amazing, exceptional motion pictures. I've had the opportunity to work with some of the finest talent in the business. All this because I was at the right place at the right time.

  Floyd Norman

  Opportunity, Numbers, Talent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Looking back at Batman from a distance - after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily been abandoned - it's easy to see the movie for what it is: a moderately diverting motion picture that should have been shorter and better paced. There are a lot of things wrong with Batman, but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie. The best thing that can be said about Batman is that it led to Batman Returns, which was a far superior effort.

  James Berardinelli

  Summer, Distance, Should Have

  "Batman (United States, 1989)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net.

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• [Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.

  James Berardinelli

  Strong, Men, Waiting

  "Batman Begins (2005)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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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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• 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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• I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Home, Two, Cameras

  Evelyn Waugh (2002). “The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy”

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• My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

  John Wayne

  Blow, Liberty, Entertainment

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

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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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• Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

  John Wayne

  Art

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.34, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Important, Printing, Presses

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• The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Important, Realizing, Process

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• I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

  Nikola Tesla

  Discovery, Years, Giving

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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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• 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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• The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Theatre, Sitting

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• I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

  Elvis Presley

  Art, Tired, Guy

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• I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

  Clint Eastwood

  Creation, Aspect, Committed

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: interviews”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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