Top 100 Motion Picture Sayings

#1. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.

Dalton Trumbo

Motion Picture Sayings #7908
#2. The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

Will Rogers

Motion Picture Sayings #29150
#3. My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

John Wayne

Motion Picture Sayings #44172
#4. For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

Michael Medved

Motion Picture Sayings #90695
#5. Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.

Leon Trotsky

Motion Picture Sayings #105323
#6. The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

William Randolph Hearst

Motion Picture Sayings #120480
#7. No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

Walt Disney

Motion Picture Sayings #129490
#8. The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed ... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people.

Billy Graham

Motion Picture Sayings #145838
#9. Nobody knows anything ... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

William Goldman

Motion Picture Sayings #181370
#10. Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

Dick York

Motion Picture Sayings #197227
#11. The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

Alfred Hitchcock

Motion Picture Sayings #210610
#12. Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

Gene Kelly

Motion Picture Sayings #225470
#13. The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

Billy Bob Thornton

Motion Picture Sayings #282027
#14. Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

Henry Rollins

Motion Picture Sayings #285177
#15. The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.

Frederick Lenz

Motion Picture Sayings #286074
#16. I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

Spencer Johnson

Motion Picture Sayings #286192
#17. I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

Hattie McDaniel

Motion Picture Sayings #292054
#18. The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.

Ben E. King

Motion Picture Sayings #297505
#19. There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

Gene Roddenberry

Motion Picture Sayings #350851
#20. This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel, America, a brash motion picture in technicolor ...

Jess Walter

Motion Picture Sayings #353816
#21. Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

Mack Sennett

Motion Picture Sayings #356127
#22. The motion picture is the people's Art.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Motion Picture Sayings #363166
#23. A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Samuel Fuller

Motion Picture Sayings #390365
#24. I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

LaToya London

Motion Picture Sayings #398936
#25. Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

Parker Stevenson

Motion Picture Sayings #419746
#26. Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Dev Anand

Motion Picture Sayings #420860
#27. Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.

Michael Eisner

Motion Picture Sayings #442661
#28. When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

Gary Gygax

Motion Picture Sayings #472981
#29. Jews have always controlled the business ... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada ... is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Henry Ford

Motion Picture Sayings #476393
#30. The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

P.G. Wodehouse

Motion Picture Sayings #526725
#31. I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

Dick York

Motion Picture Sayings #537974
#32. Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

John Wayne

Motion Picture Sayings #557267
#33. So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.

Garson Kanin

Motion Picture Sayings #560639
#34. If one could run the story of that first human group like a speeded-up motion picture through a million years of time, one might see the stone in the hand change to the flint ax and the torch.

Loren Eiseley

Motion Picture Sayings #561909
#35. My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

Matthew Specktor

Motion Picture Sayings #572306
#36. A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

Ivan Klima

Motion Picture Sayings #596711
#37. Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

Timothy Noah

Motion Picture Sayings #613264
#38. The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.

Bradley Sands

Motion Picture Sayings #613767
#39. The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.

Gerald Jampolsky

Motion Picture Sayings #629598
#40. I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

David O. Russell

Motion Picture Sayings #670558
#41. Since this girl in front of him represented not a person, but again the image, or something desirable, the last thing we would expect him to want to do would be to personalize this person ... Chattering and flattering and entertaining, as if seen through a motion picture screen.

Ted Bundy

Motion Picture Sayings #694442
#42. Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

Pearl S. Buck

Motion Picture Sayings #741391
#43. Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

John Lasseter

Motion Picture Sayings #759010
#44. I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

Lenny Bruce

Motion Picture Sayings #795368
#45. I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

John Hench

Motion Picture Sayings #800315
#46. Film analysis enables us to recognize how the filmmakers have their magic on us, how all the constituent elements of the film have combined to create that magic. Rather than rob us of the pleasures of watching films, this approach affords us the even greater pleasure of deep engagement

Jon Lewis

Motion Picture Sayings #822627
#47. It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

Christopher Hitchens

Motion Picture Sayings #861032
#48. Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

Desi Arnaz

Motion Picture Sayings #891705
#49. I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

Kurt Russell

Motion Picture Sayings #899078
#50. I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.

Brian De Palma

Motion Picture Sayings #901827
#51. I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.

William Monahan

Motion Picture Sayings #932215
#52. It really showed that you can do a major motion picture, from the folks at Marvel, that has multiple characters on an epic scale. On top of that, it also showed us that one of the most important elements is a certain kind of levity.

Jeph Loeb

Motion Picture Sayings #949315
#53. There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

Ralph Macchio

Motion Picture Sayings #949815
#54. West Side Story was a highly popular and successful musical play and now is a similarly well-received motion picture. (I would think that it could also be used shrewdly as a document for discussion in Sunday Schools, in place of some of the ridiculous curriculum materials now in use).

William Stringfellow

Motion Picture Sayings #954805
#55. I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Potter Stewart

Motion Picture Sayings #960841
#56. This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

Zane Grey

Motion Picture Sayings #972865
#57. How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

Miriam Hopkins

Motion Picture Sayings #984031
#58. There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

Warren Farrell

Motion Picture Sayings #1002303
#59. My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

John Wayne

Motion Picture Sayings #1040426
#60. Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Norma Shearer

Motion Picture Sayings #1042848
#61. Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

Laurence Olivier

Motion Picture Sayings #1044542
#62. After nearly half a century, it's easy to forget that the Hays Code was not some outside limitation imposed by the government. It was a content standard imposed by motion picture companies voluntarily.

Ben Shapiro

Motion Picture Sayings #1052900
#63. The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Hedda Hopper

Motion Picture Sayings #1063247
#64. Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

Steve Erickson

Motion Picture Sayings #1086002
#65. To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Alfred Stieglitz

Motion Picture Sayings #1134305
#66. Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.

Richard Stallman

Motion Picture Sayings #1194607
#67. Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture ... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless ...

Jean Cocteau

Motion Picture Sayings #1204266
#68. The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Motion Picture Sayings #1214682
#69. Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

Oscar Micheaux

Motion Picture Sayings #1222286
#70. The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer ... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

Irving Thalberg

Motion Picture Sayings #1246704
#71. The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Motion Picture Sayings #1266896
#72. There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Mark Rydell

Motion Picture Sayings #1296911
#73. I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Francis Ford Coppola

Motion Picture Sayings #1306707
#74. Words are plastic these days. Small loans made to desperate people at exorbitant interest rates are called payday advances. A cheesy hotel paired with a seedy casino is called a resort. Any assemblage of frenetic images, bad music, and incoherent plot is called a major motion picture.

Dean Koontz

Motion Picture Sayings #1343692
#75. I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow ... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

Ginger Rogers

Motion Picture Sayings #1360639
#76. Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

King Louie

Motion Picture Sayings #1375044
#77. I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

Gene Kelly

Motion Picture Sayings #1400429
#78. A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

Uwe Boll

Motion Picture Sayings #1415611
#79. The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

Raymond Chandler

Motion Picture Sayings #1434161
#80. The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

John Gregory Dunne

Motion Picture Sayings #1449217
#81. I think fashion in motion is going to happen. I think that's the way things are going, but there are people who will still want to see a picture and to be able to hold it.

Kate Moss

Motion Picture Sayings #1463424
#82. The [Motion Picture Production Code] took effect on March 31, 1930, 5 months too late to prevent the Wall Street Crash, but early enough to keep The Sixties from happening until approximately 1964. (When America fell victim to the British Invasion).

Stephen Colbert

Motion Picture Sayings #1465507
#83. The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.

Aaron Ruell

Motion Picture Sayings #1475587
#84. I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

Conrad Veidt

Motion Picture Sayings #1481047
#85. The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.

Rod Serling

Motion Picture Sayings #1525028
#86. When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.

Frank Abagnale

Motion Picture Sayings #1530594
#87. Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike....

P.G. Wodehouse

Motion Picture Sayings #1549932
#88. If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

Jo Coudert

Motion Picture Sayings #1560867
#89. I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Loretta Young

Motion Picture Sayings #1568899
#90. I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Walt Disney

Motion Picture Sayings #1599479
#91. Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's
home TV receiver?

Jack Gould

Motion Picture Sayings #1614934
#92. I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

Zack Snyder

Motion Picture Sayings #1624340
#93. Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Colin Greenwood

Motion Picture Sayings #1638654
#94. If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

Orson Welles

Motion Picture Sayings #1660344
#95. The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director ... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.

King Vidor

Motion Picture Sayings #1689776
#96. Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a little movie like 'Driving Miss Daisy' or 'Rain Man' and go right through the roof. This business is still about creative juices, and size is no guarantee of that.

Lee Rich

Motion Picture Sayings #1713115
#97. The Starship Enterprise is not a collection of motion picture sets or a model used in visual effects. It is a very real vehicle; one designed for storytelling.

Rick Sternbach

Motion Picture Sayings #1716947
#98. I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

Thomas A. Edison

Motion Picture Sayings #1719229
#99. Let's be clear about one thing: a film about Katharine Hepburn is an excellent idea. She was one of the most fascinating, complex stars ever to grace a motion picture screen, and she deserves a full-scale, big-screen biographical treatment.

William J. Mann

Motion Picture Sayings #1720764
#100. The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Peter Bart

Motion Picture Sayings #1725062

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