#screen

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#brain #gear #into #mantra #otherwise

Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #safety #screening #servants #humor

I quickly, swiftly, reach in, pluck out, and peer into the mirror. 'I am still here.' I am in the glass, in this moment. After this moment, I may not be here; I may be a person who does not know where she is, or why. I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue. ↗

— Tim Cummings

#afterlife #astrology #brothers #children-of-celebrities #class-struggle

people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative. ↗

— Chester Elijah Branch

#screenwriting #storytelling #movies

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#i #liked #me #never #onscreen

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#big #big screen #cannes #did #feeling

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen. ↗

— Halle Berry

#anything #i #on-screen #portraying

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#flew #impossibility #screen #smoke #through

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. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#born #certain #come #dies #film

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. ↗

— Serge Daney

#cinema #little #our time #screen #see