Picture Quotes

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 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.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

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.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.