Celluloid Quotes

#1. Those crazy physicists that spend all day cooking themselves under an atomic reactor and all night writing stories for Weird World have done it. Spoiled my day completely. One of those idiots has hung the world up like a celluloid ball in an airstream.

Shirley Jackson

#2. This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

Alfred Hitchcock

#3. Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Kodak Eastman

#4. Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

Louis Malle

#5. Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Ray Davies

#6. I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Stephen Rea

#7. I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Marilyn Monroe

#8. The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

Steven Spielberg

#9. As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Elbert Hubbard

#10. Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

John Dickson

#12. I want to be an artist, not ... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Marilyn Monroe

#13. My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood
like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

David Lynch

#14. This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

Angela Bassett

#15. I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

Lena Dunham

#16. Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Orson Welles

#17. I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.

Amanda Plummer

#18. I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

Martin Scorsese

#19. I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

Gary Oldman

#20. If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

Ben Kingsley

#21. The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Clifton Fadiman

#22. I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that is now a piece of history. You go watch, being a fan of classic films and my children and their children are going to be watching these movies.

Edward Zwick

#23. Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Amber Benson

#24. Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

Danny Boyle

#25. It is strange the way the Western world reacts so positively and strongly to films make by foreigners or by Indian NRIs to celluloid representations of the underbelly of any Indian city.

Shoma A Chatterji

#26. The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi.

Kyle Smith

#27. And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. 'What for?' 'Sign of a good berserk, taking all your clothes off. Frightens the hell out of the enemy. If anyone starts laughing, stab 'em one.

Terry Pratchett

#28. Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.

Andy Zaltzman

#29. At the end of our lives, we mostly regret the risks we didn't take, the dreams we didn't do and the love we failed to give. If those things are going to be important to you at the end, make them important to you right now.

Robin S. Sharma

#30. Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen.

Jenny McCarthy

#31. Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.

Jerome A. Miller

#32. Self is one, personal and impersonal.
But it is only on the personal level that one comes to know the Self.
When you know the Self, you realize there are two types of knowledge.
First is to know how to exist and second is to know the all-pervading spirit.

Gian Kumar

#33. It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#34. Written up in marker on a factory sign:
I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine

Coldplay

#35. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

Ruth Ozeki

#36. Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

Tim Wise

#37. I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

Edgerrin James

#38. He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland - even to him - when compared with Davydd's hell-for-leather dazzle.

Sharon Kay Penman

#39. Since the future cannot be known and everything is changeable, I beg all of you to find the people you have come to love and express yourself with fervency. You will never have this chance again.

Michael Levy

#40. Because that's what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved.

Julie Anne Long