1.
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
William Goldman
2.
That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.
Robert Stack
3.
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
Gene Kelly
4.
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
Shirley Jones
5.
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.
Richard Donner
6.
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer
7.
I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.
Jeffrey Hunter
8.
I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.
Hattie McDaniel
9.
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
Richard Donner
10.
Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.
Ben Burtt
11.
I went around the corner to motion pictures.
Jerry Reed
12.
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
Dalton Trumbo
13.
The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.
King Vidor
14.
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.
Alfred Stieglitz
16.
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
Samuel Fuller
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Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".
King Louie
18.
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
Alfred Hitchcock
19.
I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.
Liberace
20.
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
Zane Grey
21.
I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
22.
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.
P. G. Wodehouse
23.
The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.
William Monahan
24.
John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.
John Badham
25.
I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.
Clint Eastwood
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
John Wayne
27.
You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.
Elaine Stritch
28.
I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
Jean-Luc Godard
29.
I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.
David O. Russell
30.
The motion picture Deadpool was my favorite funny movie of [2016]. Something that I could just watch over and over again, because it's just so... he says so many things.
Doug Benson
31.
I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.
Norm MacDonald