All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing... is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No sacrifice was too great to get the film right, to get it accurate, true, and perfect. We weren't important in our minds; only t...he picture was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the movie woman's world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it's all the... same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stopped reading movie magazines in the beauty parlor a couple of years ago because I could not accommodate any more information ...about something called the Lennon Sisters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times whe...n this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think it's awful and ugly and a complete waste of talent. Why is he wasting his talent? ... why doesn't he make a movie that wou...ld uplift kids and teach them something? All this sex and violence, sex and violence. He's like a dog chasing his tail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good s...ense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems only yesterday that we saw The movie with the cows in it... And turned to one at your side, who burped As morning saw a new garnet-and-pea-green order propose Itself out of the endless bathos, like science-fiction lumps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Analogies between the stage and the screen assume that they deal with the same material. But they don't. The material of the scree...n is not actual objects but images fixed on the film. And the very fact that they have their being on film endows these images with properties which are never found in actual objects. For instance, on the stage the actor moves in real space and time. He cannot even cross the room without performing a definite number of movements. On the screen an action may be shown only in terminal points with all its intervening moments left out. Similarly, in watching a performance on the stage the spectator is governed by the actual conditions of space and time. Not so in the case of the movie spectator. Thanks to the moving camera he is able to view the scene from all kinds of angles, leaping from a long-distance view to a close-range inspection of every detail. It is obvious that with this extraordinary power of handling space and time--by elimination and emphasis, according to its dramatic needs--the motion picture can never be content with modeling itself after the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »