Motion Pictures quotes
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"I went around the corner to motion pictures."
"The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen."
"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"."
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"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."
"I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life."
"Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business."