Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business! — Roger Corman
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. — Robert Bresson
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images. — Steven Bochco
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. — Charlie Chaplin
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle. — Robert Bresson
Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever. — Hedy Lamarr
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. — Ingmar Bergman
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. — Stan Brakhage
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. — Ingmar Bergman
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself — Michael Haneke
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. — M. Night Shyamalan
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. — Tim Burton
I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind. — Kenneth Anger
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni
I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get. — Campbell Scott
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. — Orson Welles
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. — Jami Gertz
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. — Conrad Hall
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. — Oliver Stone
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There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. — Mark Rydell
The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure. — Neville Goddard
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. — Raymond Chandler
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. — Uwe Boll
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital. — Vincent Canby
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one. — William Goldman
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do.
That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures. — Robert Stack
The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government. — Charles Lindbergh
I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come. — Nikola Tesla
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium. — Gene Kelly
At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest. — Ralph Ellison
The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our Government. I am saying that the LEADERS of the Jewish race wish to involve us in the war for reasons that are NOT AMERICAN. — Charles Lindbergh
The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people. — Billy Graham
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. — Oscar Micheaux
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions. — Elia Kazan
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name. — Shirley Jones
The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it. — Irving Thalberg
Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us. — Pearl S. Buck
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor. — Richard Donner
Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind. — Henry Ford
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. — H. P. Blavatsky
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. — Norma Shearer
I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6. — Loretta Young
Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. — Colin Greenwood
I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them. — Jeffrey Hunter
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. — Ray Bradbury
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. — Francis Ford Coppola
I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry. — Hattie McDaniel
Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly. — Desi Arnaz
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. — Will Rogers
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. — Richard Donner
I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home. — James MacArthur
Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator. — Laurence Olivier
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector. — Peter Bart
I went around the corner to motion pictures. — Jerry Reed
I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it. — George Eastman
Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures. — Ben Burtt
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all. — John F. Kennedy
It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. — Mark Rydell
I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things. — Dick York
I would like to say, for the record, that I am in favor of using more American Indians and other minorities in motion pictures, I am against polluting the oceans of the world, I am for every nationality having its own homeland, I am against whacking baby seals on the head, and I am for saving the whales. — Johnny Carson
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. — Alfred Stieglitz
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