Motion pictures Quotes · Page 2

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

— Ray Bradbury

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

— Norma Shearer

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

— Richard Donner

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

— John Wayne

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Clint Eastwood

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

— Jean-Luc Godard

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

— Will Rogers

The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent…

— Irving Thalberg

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

— King Louie

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

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

— Richard Donner

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

The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are…

— Gerald Jampolsky

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and…

— John F. Kennedy

When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an…

— John Huston

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

— Ben Burtt

I would like to say, for the record, that I am in favor of using more American Indians and other minorities in…

— Johnny Carson

The motion picture Deadpool was my favorite funny movie of [2016]. Something that I could just watch over and over again, because…

— Doug Benson

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the…

— Walt Disney

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry…

— Jean Cocteau

Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on…

— Mae West

I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching…

— Craig Ferguson

Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last…

— James Berardinelli

Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light,…

— MacDonald Harris

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the…

— Hattie McDaniel

I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live…

— Jose Iturbi

The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to…

— James Ellroy

[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize…

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— David O. Russell

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

— John Gregory Dunne

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

— Mark Rydell

The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're…

— Frederick Lenz

Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver?

— Jack Gould

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

— Elia Kazan

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

— Manny Pacheco

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture…

— Michael Medved

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

— John Wayne

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

— Jeffrey Hunter

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

— Parker Stevenson