Quotes About Motion Pictures

#1. The mission of the media is to reflect the community to itself, to give the people a vision of who they are, what they're doing, what they want, what they need. I think motion pictures have been an incredible gift to humanity. I can't imagine living in a world without them.

Dolores Hart

#2. To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

Ted Sarandos

#3. I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

George Eastman

#4. It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.

Dwight Schultz

#5. I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

Elvis Presley

#6. Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.

William O. Douglas

#7. The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#8. John Ottman's music has emerged ... as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

John Badham

#9. Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

Charlton Heston

#10. Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

Fred Seibert

#11. In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.

Edward Jay Epstein

#12. The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

David Letterman

#13. I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

George Lucas

#14. The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.

William Monahan

#15. I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

Tab Hunter

#16. We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.

Theodore Dreiser

#17. Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.

George Takei

#18. I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

Clint Eastwood

#19. I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#20. In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.

D. James Kennedy

#21. I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Evelyn Waugh

#22. I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Richard Donner

#23. I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.

Thomas Kinkade

#24. The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

Elia Kazan

#25. I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

Jeffrey Hunter

#26. If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Clint Eastwood

#27. In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Richard Donner

#28. I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.

Liberace

#29. When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.

John Huston

#30. I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

Shirley Jones

#31. That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

Robert Stack

#32. I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

Norm MacDonald

#33. He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

Alfred Lansing

#34. I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark.

Dorothy Lamour

#35. Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

Dolores Del Rio

#36. The term sci-fi, which most science fiction writers loathe, I will reserve for those motion pictures that claim to be science fiction but are actually based on comic strips. Or worse.

Ben Bova

#37. Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

Bette Davis

#38. For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

John F. Kennedy

#39. Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury

#40. I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Jerry Reed

#41. I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

Glenn Ford

#42. I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

Ray Bradbury

#43. I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career ... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

Tippi Hedren

#44. I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

Dick York

#45. Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

Vincent Canby

#46. I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

Walt Disney

#47. 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

#48. Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Roger Corman

#49. The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#50. Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.

Ben Burtt

#51. Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading ... the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education.

Harold Bloom

#52. Take it where you can find it, in old photograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself.

Ray Bradbury

#53. It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

Mark Rydell

#54. When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

Harry Shearer

#55. Slowly and gently, Augustus Brine explained to the king of the Djinn about the illusion created by motion pictures. When he finished, he felt like he had just raped the tooth fairy in front of a class of kindergartners.

Christopher Moore

#56. Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

Rod Serling

#57. A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

Ashwin Sanghi

#58. You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

Elaine Stritch

#59. The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

Charles Lindbergh

#60. Nations need to constantly reaffirm their historical roots to maintain their political ideals. Motion pictures were one of the media used by nations to accommplish this task. The question one must ask is: Did the colonial films made faithfully represent the period in our nation's history?

John P. Harty Jr.

#61. Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ...

J. Michael Straczynski

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. When we got together we would start projects: an alarm clock torn apart and distributed over a wall, a stop-motion video of Lego people having sex, a Web site for pictures of toilets.

Ned Vizzini

#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

#66. I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#67. Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

Isaac Newton

#68. Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

John Wayne

#69. A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Samuel Fuller

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

Billy Bob Thornton

#71. My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

Lars Von Trier

#72. The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

Alfred Hitchcock

#73. Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)

Manny Pacheco

#74. The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

William Randolph Hearst