25 Quotes About Motion-pictures

Spike Lee was the voice depicting the ills of social issues. Joseph Strickland will depict the spiritual issues (or ills) from within. ("The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style," 2018)

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

I write from the heart and do not edit and edit ... my works (music or writing). Although most writers do, and as I read their works its impossible for me to believe that they either talk or even think like that.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)

[On Darryl L. Zanuck, motion-picture producer] From Poland to polo in one generation.

But they do," he said. "That is the distressing part. They do. The quality--the intellectual or artistic quality--of the films is almost irrelevant. The crucial thing is only the degree to which they can identify, the degree to which they can project and see themselves as they would like to be. If they can do those things they can believe the picture, and if they can believe in it, then it is a good picture.

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.