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«Little figures on a little screen showed newsreel footage, talked about the war with maps and pointers, unable to compete as yet with radio.»
«I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.»
Author: Candice Bergen
(Actress)
| Keywords:
actress, asthma, asthma attack, breathing, orgasms, screen, seconds, side-to-side, simulate, simulated, simulating, slight, ten seconds
«I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen»
«My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.»
Author: Robert Bresson
| About:
Movies
| Keywords:
come to life, film, first born, first water, In My Head, movie, on paper, projected, resuscitated, screen
«In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
blotted, blotted out, camera, Marks, quotation, recognized, screen
«Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
consternation, Good Time, Greek, Greek Tragedy, integrate, integrated, in chorus, screen, television show, television shows, the Chorus, the screen, The Show, viewers
«I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.»
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
(Founder, Producer)
| Keywords:
bedroom, bedrooms, In the Bedroom, screen, the screen
«I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.»
«I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
convince, fold, get in, look up, movies, praying, screen, spotlight, spotlights, the screen, The SPOTLIGHT
«Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
bursts, burst out, everywhere, glory, omnipresent, screen, screened, screening, screens, screen out, thin
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