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In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor. -- Richard Donner
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. -- Richard Donner
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name. -- Shirley Jones
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
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
John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures. -- John Badham
The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white. -- David Letterman
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. -- Norma Shearer
Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. -- Colin Greenwood
I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home. -- James MacArthur
I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that. -- Norm MacDonald
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. -- Will Rogers
You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures. -- Elaine Stritch
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. -- Walt Disney
The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector. -- Peter Bart
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. -- Ray Bradbury
I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6. -- Loretta Young
I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them. -- Jeffrey Hunter
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue -- Brian De Palma
I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry. -- Hattie McDaniel
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. -- Francis Ford Coppola
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
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
I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures. -- Tab Hunter
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack. -- Ashwin Sanghi
When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition. -- Harry Shearer
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures. -- Tippi Hedren
Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else. -- Dolores del Rio
Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us. -- George Takei
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
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
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
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 began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures. -- Thomas Kinkade
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
If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. -- Clint Eastwood
I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of. -- Glenn Ford
If you take the '70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves. -- Glynn Turman
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. -- Fran Lebowitz
By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens. -- Tom Hanks
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures. -- John Carpenter
I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move. -- Craig Ferguson
I went around the corner to motion pictures. -- Jerry Reed
I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them. -- Liberace
I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures. -- Elvis Presley
I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK. -- Jean-Luc Godard
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses." -- Richard Donner
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. -- Lars von Trier
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision. -- Isaac Newton
I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life. -- Clint Eastwood
I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it. -- George Eastman
I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark. -- Dorothy Lamour
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
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
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures. -- Tippi Hedren
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
I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices. -- George Lucas
Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful. -- Charlton Heston
I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. -- Walt Disney
In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment. -- D. James Kennedy
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request. -- Bette Davis

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