Motion Pictures Quotes

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.

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.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

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.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

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

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.

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

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".

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.

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.

The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.