Screens Quotes - Page 6

• Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.

  Neal Gabler

  Country, Empires, Study

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• When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Sitting, Use

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

  Bela Lugosi

  Thinking, Way

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• You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Stars, Men, Names

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

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• I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Challenges, Acting, Found

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

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• One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

  James Mangold

  Beautiful, Favourite, Shots

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• If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.

  Joseph Morgan

  Hate, Interesting, Tennis

  "Exclusive: Joseph Morgan Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and IMMORTALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

  Louise Mensch

  Internet, Behinds, Knows

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• Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.

  Alfred Molina

  Cameras, Actors, Moments

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• I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Thinking, Long, Quality

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• Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

  Craig McCracken

  Approved

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• I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.

  Olivia Williams

  Kissing, Lucky, Three

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• But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Book, Thinking, Differences

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• I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

  Sonequa Martin

  Fighting, College, Training

  "Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

  Dick Cavett

  Mean, Judging, Tvs

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.67, Macmillan

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• The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Eye, Thinking, Ideas

  "How to Film a Graphic Novel". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2011.

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• People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.

  Edward Frenkel

  Thinking, Ideas, Office

  Edward Frenkel (2013). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.145, Basic Books

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• It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

  Lisa See

  Feet, Towns, Would Be

  "Lisa See: Secret Women's Writing". "The Book Show" with Lyn Gallacher, www.abc.net.au. December 28, 2006.

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• I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Zero, Emotional, Blood

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

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• A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

  Billy Eichner

  Character, Thinking, Rocks

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• I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

  Ty Olsson

  Fortune, Not Sure, Died

  "Q&A – Ty Olsson (Griggs)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2012.

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• We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Love, Life, Family

  "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

  Martin Parr

  Fans, Documentaries, Bigs

  "Martin Parr: My Media". Interview with John Dugdale, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2010.

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• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Being Me, Presenter, Jimmy

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• In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

  Andrew Lau

  Stars, Uncles, School

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2007.

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