Picture Quotes

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

We have to draw the line somewhere. I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.