Motion pictures Quotes · Page 2

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

— Elaine Stritch

The motion picture is the people's Art.

— Adela Rogers St. Johns

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

— Elvis Presley

When I was a kid, my greatest escape was motion pictures.

— Mike Connors

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

— Samuel Fuller

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion…

— Alfred Stieglitz

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

— Tab Hunter

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he…

— Tippi Hedren

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are…

— George Lucas

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

— Parker Stevenson

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

— Peter Bart

My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles…

— Matthew Specktor

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

— Brian De Palma

I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I…

— Ginger Rogers

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of…

— Thomas Kinkade

Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this…

— Raymond Chandler

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would…

— Bette Davis

Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought.…

— Charlton Heston

It really showed that you can do a major motion picture, from the folks at Marvel, that has multiple characters on an…

— Jeph Loeb

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of…

— Raymond Chandler

The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this…

— Charles Lindbergh

Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any…

— James Berardinelli

This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly…

— Dalton Trumbo

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw…

— John Carpenter

“I wonder whether certain dreadful events, of the sort this picture is full of, are not so incalculably rich in the possibilities…

— James Agee

Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will…

— Charles Lindbergh

The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people…

— Renata Adler

You'll always see me doing things that I have no business doing. Whether it's directing a major motion picture or meeting with…

— Tom DeLonge

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

— Bradley Sands

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a…

— Zack Snyder

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

— Miriam Hopkins

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

— John Badham

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

— Mark Rydell

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

— John Gregory Dunne

I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

— David O. Russell

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Richard Donner

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on…

— Desi Arnaz

Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like…

— King Louie