Picture Quotes

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

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

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.