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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• 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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• Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stories, Metaphor, Comic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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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 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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• Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting to other people's remarks, as if acting were merely a matter of adhering to the seven-second delay rule. Jack Nicholson has made a career out of doing this sort of thing, as did Paul Newman, as did Marlon Brando (who the other two learned it from), but they didn't do it all the time and they were more fun to look at... Lars And The Real Girl joins a number of other recent films in the category of motion pictures where the director doesn't know that his protagonist is unsympathetic.

  Joe Queenan

  Girl, Fun, Real

  "Mannequin for all seasons" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.

  Mike Royer

  Kids, Years, Games

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

  John Wayne

  Gone, Recognition, Judgment

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

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• The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.

  William Monahan

  Association, Cases, Novel

  Source: collider.com

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• Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Records, Radio

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• In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Art

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• Projection will disappear. And the possibility that was given by motion pictures will be missed. The possibility of there being a real audience - a group of people who have nothing in common, but, at a certain time of the day or the week, are able to look with other nknown neighbors at something bigger than they are. To look at their problems in big. Not in small.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Real, People, Groups

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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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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• Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

  Rod Serling

  Character, Unique, Cameras

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• You can't teach anyone. You can't tell anyone. That's the thing you have to sit down and experience in order for it to mean anything. You can't intellectualize it. It's like why movies are cool. It's a combination of pictures and design and acting and music can create an experience that is outside of the experience that you can actually have in reality, which gets to my motion picture philosophy. People are like, 'aren't you trying to make the movies as real as you can?'

  Zack Snyder

  Philosophy, Real, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

  Matthew Specktor

  Mom, People, Saws

  Source: therumpus.net

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