Screen Quotes

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

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

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.