Screens Quotes - Page 26

• The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

  Tom Shales

  Stars, Glasses, Television

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• I think bringing depth to characters means really needing to find out who this girl is, what is she passionate about, what makes her tick, what gets her going in life. So I did a lot of backstory for who she was and sometimes it comes across screen and sometimes it doesn't. You never know, because you're not the director, but you can only do your work and hope that it somehow subtly is infiltrated in that. But I think the characters I've played for the most part have depth, just not in the way that you think they do.

  Amy Smart

  Girl, Character, Mean

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• I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.

  Benicio Del Toro

  People, Judging, Support

  "Benicio Del Toro Storms Out of 'Che' Interview". www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

  John Sayles

  Years, Acting, Actors

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• I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

  Laurel Clark

  Data, Looks, Might

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• Designing Woman was written for the screen.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Design, Written

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

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• Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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• If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Fire, Nba

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• I had always planned when I started directing in 1970 that after a few years I'd get tired of looking at myself on the screen and say: "Hey, let's not do that any more." But then every once in a while something pops up. I'm not saying it won't happen again but probably the odds get less as you set yourself for roles that fit your age group.

  Clint Eastwood

  Tired, Odds, Years

  "Invictus - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Looks, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Sexy, Art

  "Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Press conference, collider.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Stories, Want, Way

  "Samuel L. Jackson Talks Big Game, Playing the President, the Blob Remake, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Tvs, Stage

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• My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.

  Chuck Norris

  Careers, Goal, People

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres.

  Colette Freedman

  Cowboy, Thinking, Mash Up

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.

  Paul Simon

  Degrees, Preference

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• Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

  Chad Harbach

  Notebook, Running, Block

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• I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

  Sophie Turner

  Insecure, Parent, Acting

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• The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

  Simon Pegg

  Real, Simple, Facts

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• My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

  James Wolk

  Dad, Watches, Entertainment

  "James Wolk Interview LONE STAR". Promo Interview, collider.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.

  Virgilia Peterson

  People, Ruts, Protection

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.

  Jack Nicholson

  Art, Cancer, Home

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• Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.

  Mort Crim

  People, Parody, Bigs

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

  Mel Brooks

  Ideas, Vision, Want

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of the story of the salesman who came to a house one hot summer day. Through the screen door he could see a young boy practicing his scales on the piano. His baseball glove and hat were by the side of the piano bench. He said, "Say, boy, is your mother home?" To which the boy replied, "What do you think?" Thank heavens for conscientious parents!

  Joe J. Christensen

  Summer, Baseball, Mother

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