Quotes by Picture My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building. Russell Smith picture ugly character son I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place. Ruth B boy picture think song I usually played out and out heavies. No one else 'saw' me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. 'There is the man for Julio,' she said, 'He, and no one other.' Rudolph Valentino she picture me man I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions. Rosecrans Baldwin picture without vacation beach 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 picture destination journey writing If I'm reading a script, and I'm not buying it, I need to be able to relate to the character on some level, and they need to have more than one dimension. I need to have an idea of what this guy's thinking about when he's taking a shower not on camera. And if I can't picture him taking a shower and getting dressed, then he's not a real person. Rory Culkin picture reading character thinking When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that you should practice like crazy - what your product does, so that the investor that you are talking to can immediately picture the product in their own mind. Ron Conway picture you crazy mind I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible. Robert Towne picture feel you life As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well. Robert Stromberg picture you music art It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture. Robert Richardson good-looking far picture better good That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. Robert Hamer picture become everything done The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job. Robert Forster picture job good you Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture. Robert Evans picture about staying business I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it. Robert Battle videos picture doing myself The marketing costs are insane now. So even if you've got a picture like 'Flipped' which cost under $14 million, or $13.5 million, you're still going to spend on an national basis, if you release with a good national release, you're still going to spend, you know, $30-$40 million. Rob Reiner picture good know you The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave. Riyad Mahrez picture me dinner food 'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form. Rithy Panh picture different missing together Every girl, without fail, loves to look at a sexy picture of herself. Rita Ora picture look sexy girl People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong. Rihanna picture you time people When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake. Richard Roundtree picture go cake happy «1234567891011»