Best Picture Quotes

• The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Truth Is, Propaganda

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• Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

  Norman Jewison

  Oscars, Comedy, Moonstruck

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• Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

  Leonard Maltin

  Firsts, Beast, Animated

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• I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

  Dalton Trumbo

  Brother, Kings, Years

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fitness, Communication, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• Our best pictures happen by grace.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Grace, Happens

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• The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Lying, Vision

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• I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Art, Winning

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• I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Character, Successful

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

  Alberto Korda

  Cameras, Dollars, Lenses

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• Guys, IMDB right there, 62 movies, a ton of success, I mean, come on bro, I won best picture at 20. I wasn't even trying.

  Charlie Sheen

  Mean, Guy, Trying

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• A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal photographs. Others, audaciously and arrogantly and courageously discharge their most private feelings through photography. Trouble is, sometimes it all adds up to baloney.

  Burk Uzzle

  Photography, Careers, Feelings

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• Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

  Jock Sturges

  Thinking, Done

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• This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. 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. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

  Dalton Trumbo

  Brother, Kings, Years

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• I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

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• Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

  Tatjana Soli

  War, Accessories, Stories

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• People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.

  Nicholas Nixon

  Self, People, Get Better

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• Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Tomorrow

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• The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

  Ernst Haas

  Tiny, Nuance, Photographer

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• You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Trying, Needs

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• Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Communication, Church, Trying

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Afterlife, Awards

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

  Brett Ratner

  Trying, Wheels, Surprise

  Source: collider.com

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• You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Awards, Watches

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• You know, "Moonlight" deserves best picture [on Oscar]. What I mean by tarnished is the moment - being able to be in front of all your peers and being able to thank everyone involved and particularly when it's a movie that has some pivotal social relevance, like "Moonlight," particularly in a time where, with this new transitional government, LGBT rights are just being stripped. This win means something.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Mean, Winning, Rights

  Source: www.npr.org

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