Best Picture Quotes - Page 2

• You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

  Robert Capa

  War, Cameras, Truth Is

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• The only one that I have to go and see is Brooklyn. I was surprised to see it get the best picture nod, but Saorise Ronan, she's very mesmerizing; she has probably the most piercing set of eyes in Hollywood.

  Bun B

  Eye, Hollywood, Brooklyn

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• To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.

  Horst Faas

  Mother, Baby, Expression

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• What an honor that Stephen Prouty got nominated for best makeup and hairstyling for Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa. Am I as stunned as everyone else we didn’t get the nod for best picture? Well of course, duh, but I won’t let that take away from my happiness for Steve, Tony Gardner, and our whole makeup team. Wahoo!

  Johnny Knoxville

  Team, Makeup, Grandpa

  "Oscar Nominee Reactions: Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep And Julia Roberts Respond To Nods". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I always remind people why The Oscars got started in 1928: It was an effort by the studios to suppress the unions. They started the Academy because all the screenwriters and directors and actors were unionizing, and they thought, "We'll have something that resembles a union, but that's completely controlled by the moneyed interests in Hollywood." That's what it's been all these years. It's something that reinforces Hollywood's image of itself. The Best Picture one year was Gandhi. Nobody watched Gandhi, but that's the kind of picture that always wins.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Winning, People, Effort

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.

  Sally Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Sweat

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• 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

  Ron Fournier

  Zero, Dark, Three

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• The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

  Ansel Adams

  Prosperity, Corners, Around The Corner

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• the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Giving, Wife

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

  Harold Ramis

  Names, Ambitious, Comedy

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• My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

  Viola Davis

  Kids, Eye, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Movie, Christian, Years

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• 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

  Eli Roth

  Smart, Winning, Done

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• The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography

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• My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

  Roger Ballen

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• The best pictures are yet to be made.

  Frank Capra

  Made

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• The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Opportunity, Ninety Nine, Novel

  Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”

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• The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Painting, Painter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”

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• The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sculpture, Painting, Approach

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

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• The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Perfection, Smoking

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Rude, Secret

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• I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Discovery, Sound

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• I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short of brilliant, and they hold up. And I definitely feel like Carol speaks to, even though it's set in the past, it speaks to themes we're dealing with in life right now. It's really really shocking that it didn't get it.

  Bun B

  Past, Pieces, Brilliant

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