Top 1200 Motion Picture Quotes & Sayings

I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.

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

The motion picture is the people's Art.

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.

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

There's been no major motion picture released by a studio, no independent motion picture, in theaters, with King at the center, in the 50 years since these events happened, when we have biopics on all kinds of ridiculous people. And nothing on King? No cinematic representation that's meaningful and centered.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.

Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.

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.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. 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. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.

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

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

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

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.

The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.

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

Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn't have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

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.

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

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this also must needs be put in motion by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover; seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are put in motion by the first mover; as the staff moves only because it is put in motion by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

It used to be my ambition to emulate Fred Astaire on the stage and in motion picture musicals.

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

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.

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

When you make an album, you have a team of musicians you work with; when you're a director and you're creating a motion picture, it's a much bigger animal.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

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

There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.

After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.

Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.

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

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.

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

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.