All Quotes

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
‐‐ David Fincher

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
‐‐ Ben Hecht

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
‐‐ Graham Greene

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
‐‐ Paula Patton

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
‐‐ Ang Lee

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
‐‐ Yann Martel

A movie, it's like a very complicated timepiece. There's a lot of wheels in a watch. And some of those wheels, if they don't turn right, then, you know, the watch ain't gonna tell the time.
‐‐ Jason Statham

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
‐‐ Uwe Boll

A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the 'American problem' has yet to be solved.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.
‐‐ Alexandre Aja

A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

A movie needs to have a must-see quality among the people you are targeting. Also, make movies at a responsible budget so that if you attract your core audience, and they show up in the first few weekends, the economics will work.
‐‐ Toby Emmerich

A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime.
‐‐ Chiaki Kuriyama

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.
‐‐ Noah Emmerich

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
‐‐ Richard Schickel

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.
‐‐ Steven Soderbergh

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.
‐‐ Guy Pearce

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is 'On The Road,' does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.
‐‐ Roman Coppola

A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
‐‐ Yann Martel

A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
‐‐ Adam Green

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
‐‐ Hermann von Helmholtz

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
‐‐ Horace Porter

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.
‐‐ Li Peng

A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done.
‐‐ Alan Autry

A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.
‐‐ Victor Fung

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
‐‐ George Herbert Mead

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
‐‐ Graham Greene

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
‐‐ Florence Griffith Joyner

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
‐‐ Renzo Piano

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.
‐‐ Tino Sehgal

A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.
‐‐ Leonard Slatkin

A music video is so different to doing a movie.
‐‐ Rita Ora

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.
‐‐ Billie Piper

A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.
‐‐ Donna Lynne Champlin

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.
‐‐ Jefferson Mays

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.
‐‐ Melanie Chisholm

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.
‐‐ Jim Sullivan

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
‐‐ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.
‐‐ Charlie Byrd