Screens Quotes · Page 3

I don't really differentiate between screens so much anymore.

— Kari Skogland

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

— Shirley MacLaine

If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your…

— Martin Cooper

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

— Northrop Frye

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“The floating screens showed all sorts of television programmes.”

— Rick Riordan

With [Fred] Zinnemann I did A Man For All Seasons. He was my screen godfather. I'm happy to say he was.

— John Hurt

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the…

— Casey Stengel

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or…

— Alexander Cockburn

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him…

— Walter Isaacson

I've been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in…

— Greg MacGillivray

I think there's something so wonderful about being part of the process from the seed of the idea to seeing it come…

— Jennifer Aniston

I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I…

— Carole Landis

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost…

— Joel Edgerton

There was an article in the New York Times that said that young men can't maintain healthy relationships because they're so influenced…

— Carey Mulligan

I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and…

— Steven Soderbergh

A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's…

— Nate Parker

I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is…

— Steve McQueen

Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of…

— Jennifer Weiner

In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of…

— Alexander Pope

... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,…

— Gloria Steinem

I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens…

— Woody Allen

I think bringing depth to characters means really needing to find out who this girl is, what is she passionate about, what…

— Amy Smart

I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought…

— Samuel Barnett

In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I…

— Joe J. Christensen

The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He…

— Raymond Chandler

To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth…

— Walt Disney

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where…

— Herbert Hoover

American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have…

— Manohla Dargis

President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's…

— Stephen Colbert

Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don't on different types of films.

— Amy Adams

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

— Rene Angelil

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

— Denzel Washington

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

— Adam Grant

We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.

— Michael Pollan

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

— Leonard Cohen

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

— Deepak Chopra

Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

— Gary Busey