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• You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Morning, Japan, Play

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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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• It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Giving, Imagination

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• There is an intrinsic law: thoughts don't have their own life. They are parasites; they live on your identifying with them. When you say, 'I am angry,' you are pouring life energy into anger, because you are getting identified with anger. But when you say, 'I am watching anger flashing on the screen of the mind within me,' you are not anymore giving any life, any energy to anger.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Law, Giving

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• We go to the cinema we see images projected on the screen - but they're not real, they're only images.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Yoga, Cinema

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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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• Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

  Rich Mullins

  Song, Doors, Expression

  Song: Screen Door

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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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• I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Talking, Miracle

  Source: collider.com

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• If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and fight for your character and feel passionate about your character, and that passion comes across on screen.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Character, Passion, Fighting

  "VIKINGS: Katheryn Winnick Talks Lagertha, Collaborative Process, and Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2015.

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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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• The scariest thing about screening a comedy ... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.

  Tim Heidecker

  Real, Drama, People

  "Sundance 2012: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Skewer 'Douchey' Hollywood in Their 'Billion Dollar Movie' (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 20, 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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• In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.

  Paul Robeson

  Attitude, Responsibility, Artist

  "Here I Stand". Book by Paul Robeson, p. 124, 1958.

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• The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep our attention. He reduces each scene to its essence, and leaves it on screen long enough for us to contemplate it, to inhabit it in our imaginations. Alone among science-fiction movies, “2001'' is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe.

  Roger Ebert

  Artist, Space, Essence

  Roger Ebert (2012). “33 Movies to Restore Your Faith in Humanity: Ebert's Essentials”, p.120, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

  Sophia Loren

  Jewels, House, Mind

  "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.

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• I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mean, People, Arabia

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Looks, Film, Bigs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.

  David Gelernter

  Laptops, Care, Unification

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don't have to suffer in their lives.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Artist, People

  "David Lynch’s Guru and His Art". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.onfaith.co.

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• The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Two, Keys, People

  "(500) Days of Summer". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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