#picture

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #consequence #frontier #indiscriminate #lawlessness

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#genre #great #horror #i #i love

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! ↗

— Howard Hawks

#director #function #i #make #move

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#both #cases #difficulty #experiment #form

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#become #better #call #could #just

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#little #miracle #picture #successful

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

— Elia Kazan

#any #anybody #anything #except #ford

There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success. ↗

— Stacy Keach

#dressing #dressing room #great #guy #happy

Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#ashamed #because #behind #blueprint #endlessly

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#arrive #destination #emerges #goes #going