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I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home. -- James MacArthur
Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All. -- Richard Stallman
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands. -- Timothy Noah
Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing. -- John Ridley
Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. -- Colin Greenwood
The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song. -- Bradley Sands
For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy. -- Michael Medved
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. -- Norma Shearer
Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. -- John Lasseter
The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector. -- Peter Bart
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. -- Walt Disney
I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture. -- David O. Russell
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium. -- Gene Kelly
I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6. -- Loretta Young
I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry. -- Hattie McDaniel
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. -- Mark Rydell
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. -- Henry Rollins
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 love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture. -- Zack Snyder
There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist. -- Warren Farrell
Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional. -- Gene Kelly
Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution. -- Dev Anand
Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture. -- Dick York
I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture. -- Ginger Rogers
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play. -- Gary Gygax
When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. -- Frank Abagnale
I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera. -- John Hench
I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon. -- Spencer Johnson
Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a little movie like 'Driving Miss Daisy' or 'Rain Man' and go right through the roof. This business is still about creative juices, and size is no guarantee of that. -- Lee Rich
The motion picture is the people's Art. -- Adela Rogers St. Johns
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. -- Zane Grey
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture. -- Samuel Fuller
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business. -- John Wayne
The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen. -- King Vidor
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. -- Will Rogers
The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press. -- William Randolph Hearst
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. -- John Wayne
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal. -- John Gregory Dunne
If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business. -- John Wayne
I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day. -- Lenny Bruce
I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture. -- LaToya London
How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives? -- Miriam Hopkins
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue -- Brian De Palma
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. -- Oscar Micheaux
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials -- Parker Stevenson
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials. -- Parker Stevenson
The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical. -- Billy Bob Thornton
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 brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them. -- P. G. Wodehouse
A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. -- Ivan KlÃma
A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. -- Ivan KlÃma
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
It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture. -- Christopher Hitchens
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre. -- Frederick Lenz
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre. -- Frederick Lenz
My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry. -- Matthew Specktor
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
My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in. -- John Wayne
Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie". -- King Louie
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
If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame. -- Jo Coudert
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
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. -- Thomas A. Edison
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism. -- Hedda Hopper
I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do. -- Kurt Russell
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
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 major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar. -- Rod Serling
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
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
I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. -- Dalton Trumbo
I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio -- Dalton Trumbo
Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide. -- Michael Eisner

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