Screens Quotes - Page 32

• I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

  Al Pacino

  Writing, Years, Editors

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for the edit, and the edit is food for the screen. It's constant, and this is just the first stage of it.

  Daniel Kaluuya

  Writing, Thinking, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump.

  Van Jones

  Wall, Opposites, Hatred

  Source: pen.org

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• I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.

  Martin Sheen

  Memories, Makeup, People

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don't think it's honest.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, Looks, Honest

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with the lights on in a television-type situation where people are wandering in and out of the room. Movies are different from television, and you cannot watch movies like television. It distorts it.

  Oliver Stone

  Light, Dvds, Ideas

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Talking, Urban, Environment

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• I often think off-screen horror is more effective, it's the fear of what is lurking around the corner, just out of sight, that can leave you on the edge of your seat.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Thinking, Sight, Horror

  Source: dailydead.com

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• Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that's not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen TV, you're less worried about what other folks are doing.

  Barack Obama

  House, Feel Good, Feelings

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Feet, Tvs, Push Yourself

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay On 'Hell's Kitchen'". Interview with Rick Ellis, allyourscreens.com. July 17, 2009.

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• What I remember from [the first meeting with Samuel L. Jackson] was that he was a friendly, animated kind of guy. His screen image is a hard boiled intimidating kind of character. That's what I remembered thinking, 'Boy, this guy seems like a normal guy.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Boys

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Strong, Artist, Two

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like. Women have their own set of skills that are worth exploring and seeing on screen.

  Brie Larson

  Strong, Believe, Hero

  Source: collider.com

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• When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications, and you have to work it out. The great thing about books is that you have a tactile thing that's there. You can download this or download that, but how long do you want to be staring at a screen for the rest of your life? You've got to have some kind of proper interface for people that's not about the screen.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, People, Long

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO. She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.

  Aisha Hinds

  Memories, Character, Reflection

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.

  Aisha Hinds

  Voice, Television, Felt

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• Now if I cry on screen I think it's mint. Because I think that's how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn't, then it just doesn't happen.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Thinking, Cry, Mint

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have prominence on the big screen. [It's] the same thing from behind the camera; maybe even worse. Coming up, when you're black and you want to direct somebody says, "Oh, you're Spike Lee" or "You're John Singleton."

  Michael B. Jordan

  African American, Black, Want

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Who knows what exactly changed Tom Cotton`s mind. I mean, maybe it was that woman who said her husband was dying and only alive thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Maybe it was the young woman on your right side of your screen who said that without the treatment she could only receive through the Affordable Care Act she herself would be dead.

  Rachel Maddow

  Husband, Mean, Mind

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability to concentrate and that relationship that you build up with it, as opposed to the relationship that you build up with your screen, rewards replacement.

  Art Spiegelman

  Real, Book, Rewards

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at the institute, Kathleen Blackshear. She was interested in silk screen and taught a class that I took.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Class, Training

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they could not get training posters fast enough out of a central source in Washington, D.C. So they set up their own shop to print training posters: how to dismantle a machine gun, etc.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Army, Gun, Training

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• [I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Army, Dumb, Made

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix [MacKenzie] and I actually began to produce a line of textiles, which had silk-screen patterns on them.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Army, Class, Textiles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try to focus on being a brave performer and not worrying about my lighting or whatever, even though, then, sometimes I see myself on screen, and I'm like, "Why did you wear that, look like that, whatever," but I'm also more accepting that is what it is. There's this battle always.

  June Diane Raphael

  Worry, Brave, Focus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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