Screens Quotes - Page 39

• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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• You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivation, Long, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, People, Seeing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Color, People

  "Q&A: James Cameron & Martin Scorsese". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 15, 2011.

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• As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.

  Jill Scott

  Jewels, White, America

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• We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

  Henry Selick

  Suffering, Enough

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• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

  Maurice Sendak

  Movie, Children, Two

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• I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Kind, Natural, Subtle

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• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Done, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song

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• There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

  Steven Spielberg

  Self, Lists, Motivated

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• If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Trying, Ifs

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• As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Technology, People

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• I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Song, Jesus, Leader

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• Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Computer, Clicks, Disclosure

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• The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Grandmother, Doors, Orange

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• Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

  Gene Tierney

  Rehearsal, Rooms, Chemistry

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

  Gene Tierney

  Girl, Teenage, Eye

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

  Tina Turner

  Want, Way, Kind

  "After 5-year break, Tina is still simply the best". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. February 2, 2005.

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• Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

  Andy Warhol

  Sex, War, Pages

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.

  Andrew Weil

  Night, Light, Vision

  "Sleep Tips For A Younger, More Vibrant You" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

  Orson Welles

  Needs, Filling, Studios

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Scales, Performing

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• It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

  Dick Wolf

  Movie, Running, Beach

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• When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

  Alfre Woodard

  Love, Fall, Heart

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