--- title: "5 Motion picture Quotes By Raymond Chandler" description: "5 Motion picture quotes by Raymond Chandler. Plus more from Raymond Chandler and more Motion picture sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa1/raymond-chandler-629_achieve_the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if_289921.jpg" --- > [The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if-it-is-to-create-art-at-all/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa1/raymond-chandler-629_achieve_the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if_289921.jpg) > [Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/hollywood-is-a-showman-s-paradise-but-showmen-make-nothing-they/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/raymond-chandler-629_adept_hollywood-is-a-showman-s-paradise-but-sh_1432482.jpg) > [“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-believe-that-to-be-very-poor-and-very-beautiful-is-most-probably-a/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/389/raymond-chandler-629_art_i-believe-that-to-be-very-poor-and-very_2119238.jpg) > [Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/not-only-is-the-motion-picture-an-art-but-it-is-the-one-entirely-new/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/raymond-chandler-629_art_not-only-is-the-motion-picture-an-art-bu_2754980.jpg) > [The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-motion-picture-is-like-a-picture-of-a-lady-in-a-half-piece/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/571/raymond-chandler-629_audience_the-motion-picture-is-like-a-picture-of_3066412.jpg) ## Other authors on Motion picture - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walt-disney-94295.jpg) Walt Disney 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/motion-picture/walt-disney/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-bradbury-77494.jpg) Ray Bradbury 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/motion-picture/ray-bradbury/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blake-jenner-18367.jpg) James Berardinelli 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/motion-picture/james-berardinelli/) ## More by Raymond Chandler > [Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/television-s-perfect-you-turn-a-few-knobs-a-few-of-those-mechanical/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/there-is-no-trap-so-deadly-as-the-trap-you-set-for-yourself/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/common-sense-is-the-guy-who-tells-you-that-you-ought-to-have-had-your/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [ “Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of \[The Glass Key\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/hammett-was-the-ace-performer-he-is-said-to-have-lacked-heart-yet-the/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/she-jerked-away-from-me-like-a-startled-fawn-might-if-i-had-a/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-good-story-cannot-be-devised-it-has-to-be-distilled/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/dashiell-hammett-took-murder-out-of-thevenetian-vase-and-dropped-it/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [ “He \[James Cain\] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/he-james-cain-is-every-kind-of-writer-i-detest-a-proust-in-greasy/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-was-a-blonde-a-blonde-to-make-a-bishop-kick-a-hole-in-a-stained/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-had-been-stalking-the-bluebottle-fly-for-five-minutes-waiting-for/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-three-piece-mexican-band-was-making-the-kind-of-music-a-mexican/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/mostly-i-just-kill-time-he-said-and-it-dies-hard/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-book-was-not-new-dates-were-stamped-on-the-front-endpaper-in-and/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/without-magic-there-is-no-art-without-art-there-is-no-idealism/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) > [“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-homicide-skipper-that-year-was-a-captain-gregorius-a-type-of/) [Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/motion-picture/raymond-chandler/#itemlist", "name": "5 Motion picture Quotes By Raymond Chandler", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Raymond Chandler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if-it-is-to-create-art-at-all/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa1/raymond-chandler-629_achieve_the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if_289921.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa1/raymond-chandler-629_achieve_the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if_289921.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa1/raymond-chandler-629_achieve_the-motion-picture-made-in-hollywood-if_289921.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling…” — Raymond Chandler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Hollywood is a showman's paradise. 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