152 Quotes by Charlton Heston
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Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
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As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
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I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.
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My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.
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Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.
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Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
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The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
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In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.
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I don't think rock music has any positive function.
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