“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?” PeopleShouldHomeFilmActorsPayTelevisionMovieStay StrongStay PositiveStay At Home Author:Samuel Goldwyn
“The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.” MenWorldHas BeensHandsGivenMediaTelevisionIllusionAccountsClaimsMovieDividesReportersFifthSecond Hand Author:Josephine Herbst
“On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.” HandsKidsTelevisionHeroCallingPressesMovieVandals Author:Ken Thompson
“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.” GivingDoeCharacterActorsDealsRightsImagineTelevisionDemandAgreeSellsNewspapersIncomeAgentsNovelistsMovieSplitsOwnershipPublishersLunaticManuscriptsCartoonistSyndicateLiterary Agents Author:Bill Watterson
“In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.” PeopleBigsPoliticalActorsViewsTakenFiveCrazyTelevisionPoint Of ViewTheatreOpeningParisMovie Author:Ingrid Bergman
“Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]” ShowsActorsTelevisionMovieReviewsTelevision ShowsReferring Author:Yogi Berra