Screen Quotes

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.

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

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

I love writing for the screen.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

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.

My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.