- Nov 07, 2020
Pictures Quotes
Every picture tells more than one story.
One scientific line here describes particle and wave 'pictures' in physics as useful but incomplete, while a political quote warns against officials who paint overly rosy pictures of budgets and policy. See Expression quotes for related themes.
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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
- Distributed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a girl sends me 100 pictures, I have to send something back every now and then.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I don't come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they don't match up, I find it frustrating.
- Nov 07, 2020
We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.
- Nov 07, 2020
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020