Screens Quotes - Page 14

• We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Love, Life, Family

  "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

  Martin Parr

  Fans, Documentaries, Bigs

  "Martin Parr: My Media". Interview with John Dugdale, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

  Rouben Mamoulian

  Ideas, Insane, Directors

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• A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Struggle, Character, Interesting

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• You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Cutting, Directors, Green

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't really think about roles - "dream roles." It's always about who's gonna be the person on the screen or who's gonna be the person on the stage and who's gonna direct it and put it all together.

  Carey Mulligan

  Dream, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

  John Travolta

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Eye, Autumn

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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Blue, Views

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1901). “The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Needs, Dull

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• I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn't. Harry Potter is 70% imagination. When the movie comes out, it's going to be such a stereotype for kids. When they think of Harry Potter, they're going to think of what is portrayed on screen.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Osment Blasts Harry Potter Movie Plans" by wenn.com, October 13, 2000.

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• When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Past, Opposites

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• Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Cute, People, Design

  "What can we do?" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2005.

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• My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

  Robert Genn

  Technology, Hands, Juicy

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• I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Sex, Hate, Hands

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

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• You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

  Errol Flynn

  Real, Acting, Mobility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Simple, Evil

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• Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perception, Consciousness

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• Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are the screen? How is it that we have forgotten that we are the Self and that nothing but the Self exists?

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Return

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• I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

  Ricky Gervais

  Growing Up, Memories, Class

  "Ricky Gervais Calls CEMETERY JUNCTION His SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Plus Info on His New HBO Animated Series". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 16, 2009.

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• The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in the book were the thoughts of the character, and obviously wanting to avoid voiceover.

  David Benioff

  Book, Character, Challenges

  "The Surprising Connection Between Game of Thrones and Monty Python". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Promise, Democracy, Phrases

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• It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.

  Lara Pulver

  Done, Sake, Nudity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Inspirational, Music, Character

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