Motion picture Quotes

“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.”

“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.”

“Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?”

“There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.”

“Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!”

“You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.”

“The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.”

“It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.”

“Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”

“As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.”

“When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.”