Best Screens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

“There's a reason screens are only this thick.”

“A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.”

“The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.”

Knows Has Beens Book Truth Is Screens Satisfied Novelists Adaptation

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.”

People Psychology Screens

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Attitude Screens Our Words

Book:Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak

Source: Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak

“Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.”

Book Different Done Use Reality Jobs Form Pages Tools Screens Comic Comic Book Cartoonist Vertical Horizontal Get The Job Done Conveying Cgi

Author:Frank Miller

“Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.”

Hours Four Months Screens Preparation Shooting Seconds Screen Time

Author:Wentworth Miller

“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.”

Way Littles Bigs Kids Used Night House Inspiring Happened Missing Fronts Moved Screens Little Kid All Alone Popcorn

Book:Marilyn Monroe in her own words

Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words

“I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.”

Way Bigs Might Gone Honest Lifetime Stores Screens Video Dozen Dvds Big Screen

Author:Michael Moore

“Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.”

People Ifs World Years Two Different Humor House Share Screens Sense Of Humor Different Peoples And Off

Author:Roger Moore

“If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.”

Ifs Thinking Two Whole Roles Tests Machines Twenties Screens Bored Awards Dozen Hype Circuits

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.”

People Thinking World Book Used Reading Screens Damn Online Reading Books

Author:Bill Murray

“As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.”

Giving Said Kids Black Color Screens Horizon Permission Cowboy

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.”

Giving Feels Screens

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.”

Ends Body Animal Secret Dog Tvs Cat Bigger Screens Dirty Inches Cages Compelled Parrots Hoarding Dirty Secrets

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.”

People Ifs Knows Way Believe Television Screens

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?”

Havens Position Hollywood Very Good Conservative Screens Politically Correct

Author:Chuck Norris

“Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.”

Feels Two Hard Action Brain Fire Minutes Involved Machines Constant Screens Bored Rapids Appearing Stimulation Texting

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.”

People Together Actors Acting Support Stage Emotional Materials Fine Comfort Screens Inevitable Fulfillment Companion

Author:Peter O'Toole

“I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.”

Feels Writing Mean Whole Hours Novel Paper Pages Screens Staring Old Fashioned Scrap Revision Scribbles Processors

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“What I tell my kids is, I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen time rules.”

Stills Kids Knowing College Balance Independence Screens Boundaries Preparing Screen Time

Author:Michelle Obama

“The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.”

Home Perfect Eternal Screens Quests Arrangements Apps

Author:Susan Orlean

“When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.”

Hands Moving Games Fun Felt Chance Too Much Heard Style Wave Screens Rising Reports Minorities Touching Machinery Astonishing Microsoft Urgency Gadgets Too Much Fun Minority Report Pizzazz

Author:Susan Orlean

“I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.”

Screens Lovely Jennifer

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.”

Persons Actors Screens

Author:Alexander Payne

“Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.”

People Littles Has Beens Made Helping Might Three Difficult Plans Materials Band Directors Screens Garage Mandates Plan B

Author:Brad Pitt

“My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.”

Ifs Brain Add Screens Shut Up Cricket Gears Commentators Mantras

Author:Richie Benaud

“I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.”

Girl Hurt Mines Kissing Clothes Fellows Screens Chicks My Girl

Author:Oliver Reed

“Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.”

Thinking Space Audience Scene Negative Depth Screens Zero Coming Out Negative Space

Author:Keanu Reeves

“'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.”

Running Fighting Break Elements Green Speed Screens Jumping Wire Trilogies Point Break

Author:Keanu Reeves

“There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.”

Way Want Honest Direct Screens

Author:Jason Reitman

“'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.”

Felt Roles Green Screens Glad Tested Lanterns Green Lantern

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.”

Character Audience Exercise Tough Screens Restraint Flexible Tricky

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.”

People Want Together Knowing Tvs Screens Pushing Over It Sweat Rock N Roll Buttons Bugs Going For It Playing Together

Author:Keith Richards

“On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.”

Years Seems Saws Minutes New York Ten Singing Shots Years Ago Dancing Lifetime Screens Broadway Emma Singing And Dancing Flashback

Author:Alan Rickman

“Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.”

“Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.”

Writing Used Novel Struggle Argument Opposites Screens Truthfulness Diversion

Author:John Berger

“I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen.”

Thinking Two Film Watches Screens Lovely

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.”

World Knowing Judging Exciting Cameras Scary Screens Around The World Thrilling Exposing Exposing Yourself

Author:Eli Roth

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

Home Bigs Pages Screens Welcome Harry Potter Big Screen Hogwarts Harry Potter Series

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.”

Looks Ends Bigs Actors Games Pieces Fields Football Strategy Theatre Screens Chess Movie Ballet Glorify Playgrounds Big Movie Amplify Narration Football Field Battleground

Author:Steve Sabol

“Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.”

Thinking Way Feels Looks Body Able Dancing Screens Backgrounds Tunes Length Ballet

Author:Zoe Saldana

“In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.”

Knows Art Seeing Screens Smoke Narrative Scandal Camouflage

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.”

Sometimes Hard Enough Light Stuff Magic Objects Needed Models Details Screens Makers Construction Inches Back When Spaceships Miniatures Specialty

Author:Adam Savage

“You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.”

Long Ends Motivation Waiting Hours Perfect Screens Call Me Scream Midnight

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.”

People Thinking Seeing Screens

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.”

People Firsts Bigs Wanted Moving Sound Color Depth Screens Big Screen

Author:Martin Scorsese

“As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.”

Shows America White Greater Movement Television Glory Died Slavery Screens Magazines Jewels Television Shows Dazzling Greater Good

Author:Jill Scott

“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.”

Children Said Two Bigs Actors Saws Screens Movie My Sister Mice Mickey Emblems Berserk Big Heads Funniness

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.”

Kind Bigs Natural Performances Screens Subtle Intimidated Big Screen

Author:Chloe Sevigny

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