#pictures

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#doing #pictures #those #wonderful

Kids love to look at pictures of themselves. ↗

— Nancy O'Dell

#look #love #pictures #themselves

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#bankrupt #came #embassy #out #pictures

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief. ↗

— Vittorio De Sica

#commercial #films #glad #his way #i

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy. ↗

— George Sidney

#happy #i #know #live #lived

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critics #dirty #films #foreign #lusty

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#book #box #deep #door #each

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#i #land #like #mine #never