Motion Picture Quotes

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

HBO spends almost a month perfecting an episode. They shoot at the same speed that you would shoot a major motion picture, and they give you all of the things that you need to succeed. They really do support their artists.

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

'America' took at least five days of actual filming.

If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies!

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service, magazine, news Web site, television, radio or motion picture - for public use. This broad definition covers every form of legitimate journalism.

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

Film is a truly magical medium.

'Deadpool' took seven years to get to the motion picture screen, and I use that as my measurement. That tested me and my patience more than anything I could've imagined because the screenplay was so good.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

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.

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

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.

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

The cinema is death at work.

Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.

I am very excited because 'ABCD' is India's first dance film. I am also thrilled because the film is in 3D. People will be able to see my dance in 3D.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.