Screens Quotes · Page 3

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

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

— Amy Adams

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

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

— Leonard Cohen

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

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

For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on…

— Ansel Adams

The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really…

— Duncan Jones

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing…

— Haskell Wexler

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away…

— Andrzej Wajda

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us…

— David Crane

There is an access to... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of…

— Ridley Scott

Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest,…

— John Clare

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell…

— John Updike

Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with…

— Bill Maher

Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.…

— William Raspberry

My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV…

— John Waters

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV…

— Denise Duhamel

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

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

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new…

— Jennifer Stone

When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back…

— Julie Taymor

War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces,…

— Zainab Salbi

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

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

— Sian Clifford

If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.

— Nicole Kidman

[I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process.

— Warren MacKenzie

Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on.

— Tim Cook