Motion Pictures Quotes - Page 6

• By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Sea, Alabama

  "Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Thinking, Belief, Certain

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.

  William Monahan

  Past, Two, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.

  Garson Kanin

  Art, Too Much, Trouble

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

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• The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.

  Rod Serling

  Expression, Essence, Differences

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.

  John Huston

  Forever, Understanding, Realization

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• After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.

  Paul Haslinger

  Moving, Collaboration, Hollywood

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• I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.

  Craig Ferguson

  Moving, Boys, Marching On

  "He's Just Teasing / `Drew Carey' actor Craig Ferguson plays a gay hairdresser in a new comedy" by Mick LaSalle, www.sfgate.com. January 23, 2000.

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• I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

  Lenny Bruce

  Children, Environmental Factors, Credit

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

  Jean Cocteau

  Photography, Silence, Cry

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• I would like to say, for the record, that I am in favor of using more American Indians and other minorities in motion pictures, I am against polluting the oceans of the world, I am for every nationality having its own homeland, I am against whacking baby seals on the head, and I am for saving the whales.

  Johnny Carson

  Baby, Ocean, Whales

  "Politically Incorrect Oscar Jokes Through the Years", www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2016.

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• You'll always see me doing things that I have no business doing. Whether it's directing a major motion picture or meeting with the most important people in government and dealing with the biggest subjects on Earth. The story of the millennia. These are things I aspire to tackle. It doesn't mean I'm going to win on all of them, but God damn, it looks like I've got a pretty good shot at it.

  Tom DeLonge

  Mean, Winning, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

  Dev Anand

  Baby, Ideas, Finals

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

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• The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Brain, Soup, Members

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Play, Suffering, Directors

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