Screen Quotes

1147 quotes by 977 authors

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. — Marshall McLuhan
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see… — Fredric Wertham
I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber… — Elwyn Brooks White
I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel. — Dorothy Gish
No oneâ€™s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick… — Dave Eggers
There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what Iâ€™m… — Haskell Wexler
It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have done. And when… — Bow Wow
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature… — Hiroshi Sugimoto
Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions… — Mick LaSalle
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the… — Abraham Verghese
I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to… — George Best
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
One of the most visually beautiful movies you can see on the big screen. — Ty Burr
I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're… — Sergio Aragones
I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ...… — Linus Torvalds
There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it… — Bruno Maag
On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy... — Kevin Flynn
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes… — Fred Brooks
The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at… — Francois Truffaut

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