Quotes About The Motion Picture Industry

#1. 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

#2. I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

Hattie McDaniel

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

Lenny Bruce

#6. 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

#7. There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Mark Rydell

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.

Simon Sinek

#11. quality of the relationships between qualified players is usually more important than the individual performances.

Corey Ladas

#12. BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

David Letterman

#13. We cannot say to one couple that their love is deserving of marriage and to another that their love should only be called a partnership. 'Separate but equal' is never equal. Children of same-sex couples should not grow up wondering why their family is treated differently from other families

Christine Gregoire

#14. The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Charles Eastman

#15. I have a picture of him from California. I'll forward it up to you. A big guy." "Big, like bodyguard big?" "Try Godzilla.

Gary Grossman

#16. Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

Corrine Brown

#17. Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't - oppose the popular voice.

Richard Paul Evans

#18. To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.

Debasish Mridha

#19. The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

Rebecca Solnit

#20. Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

Henry Rollins

#21. The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

Dan Savage

#22. It seems like there is something about sharing your insides with the world that gives other people strength and hope and helps them not to feel so alone.

Nic Sheff

#23. Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. This is the price that must be paid for an oeuvre to be, at all times, a sort of pure beginning, which makes its creation an exercise in freedom.

Jean Lescure

#24. Your trouble is that reaching final conclusions just isn't your thing. You're afraid the decision you make will deprive you of further choice, so that paralyzes your will.

Evgenij Vodolazkin