Motion pictures Quotes

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

— Norma Shearer

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

— Ray Bradbury

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

— James MacArthur

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— John Wayne

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

— Richard Donner

We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.

— Walt Disney

I never considered going into motion pictures.

— Cyd Charisse

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

— George Eastman

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

— Lenny Bruce

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in…

— Robert Stack

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

— Oscar Micheaux

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

— Shirley Jones

My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty,…

— John Wayne

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

— King Vidor

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to…

— Anonymous

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like…

— Walt Disney

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits,…

— Pearl S Buck

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need…

— Tom Hanks

If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and…

— Clint Eastwood

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant…

— Thomas A. Edison

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget…

— Uwe Boll

So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an…

— Garson Kanin

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with…

— John Hench

[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by…

— James Berardinelli

You can't teach anyone. You can't tell anyone. That's the thing you have to sit down and experience in order for it…

— Zack Snyder

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,…

— Raymond Chandler

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just…

— George Harrison

“But they do," he said. "That is the distressing part. They do. The quality--the intellectual or artistic quality--of the films is almost…

— Henry Sutton

A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that…

— Ginette Paris

Looking back at Batman from a distance - after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily…

— James Berardinelli

Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting…

— Joe Queenan

“If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown…

— Gregory Peck

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

— Liberace

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

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Chaplin was the greatest thing ever to hit motion pictures.

— Jackie Coogan

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

— Gene Kelly

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

— Jerry Reed

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

— Norm MacDonald

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

— Colin Greenwood