“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Movies
Stanley Kubrick on Movies
Kate Reid on Acting
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.” Continue reading
Hodding Carter on Television
“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” Continue reading
Yoda Wisdom Quote
“Do or do not… there is no try.” Continue reading
Walt Disney on Movies
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” Continue reading
Fred Allen on Hollywood
“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.” Continue reading
Jean Cocteau on Movies
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” Continue reading
Alfred Hitchcock on Media
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” Continue reading
Samuel Goldwyn on Movies
“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.” Continue reading
Marilyn Monroe on Hollywood
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” Continue reading
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