For me, every film is like the first picture. I am very choosy with the director and producer.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

Life is too short to talk about the small, unimportant things when you catch the bigger picture.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

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

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture.

I see a picture right now that's not parallel, so I'm going to go straighten it. Things must be in order.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.

I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on!

In the picture, I am crying from pain. Now, I cry for peace. I don't want to see any more children suffer.

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