Screens Quotes - Page 32

• I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

  Eric Church

  Thinking, Artist, People

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• For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

  Lincoln Child

  Hard Work, Writing, Pages

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• I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.

  Sam Claflin

  Insecurity, Watches, Done

  "Sam Claflin, Finnick Odair: An Interview With The ‘Catching Fire’ Heartthrob". Interview with Dana Matthews, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

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• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  Sean Covey

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  "Glenn Beck Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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• From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

  Bill Condon

  Epic, Groups, Ensemble

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• I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

  Billy Crudup

  Character, Energy, Want

  "Billy Crudup Bares All". Parade Interview, parade.com. March 3, 2009.

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• To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

  Ben Affleck

  Ideas, Would Be, Answers

  ""Argo" director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

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• It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

  Devon Aoki

  Difficult, Critics

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

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• I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

  Hayden Christensen

  Class, Wish, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

  Lee Child

  Moving, Book, Character

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• One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

  Linda Cardellini

  Voice, Faces, Favorites Things

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.

  Robert Cailliau

  Needs, Useless, Lines

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• There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

  Toni Collette

  Challenges, Actors, Becoming

  "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

  Jack Dorsey

  Cities, Giving, Flow

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• There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Reading, Phones, Data

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

  Stanley Donen

  Unseen, Looks, Want

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• To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

  Beverly D'Angelo

  Stars, Want, Ends

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

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• My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

  Jason Dohring

  Creating, Moments, My Favorite

  "Exclusive Interview with Jason Dohring of Veronica Mars". Interview with Kath Skerry, www.givememyremote.com. March 16, 2006.

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• I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

  Jonathan Demme

  School, Done, Film

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• Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Christian, Dream, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Writing, Way, Idiot

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2000.

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• I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

  Joshua Ferris

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  "Writers' rooms: Joshua Ferris", www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2007.

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• You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

  Danai Gurira

  Space, Add, Looks

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• It's better to think of life as a proper journey with a beginning and an end. Maybe, I can settle for being immortalised on screen.

  Douglas Booth

  Journey, Thinking, Settling

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

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• I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.

  Grant Bowler

  Special, Fiction, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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