Picture Quotes

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

Ben Shahn
- Country
- Picture
When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

John Joseph Lydon
- Trying
- Brain
- Picture

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

Elia Kazan
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

Benjamin Whorf
- Up
- Time
- Space
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

Sigmund Freud
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

Mac Barnett
- Good
- Writing
- Book
You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

Fritz Lang
- Heart
- Hand
- Brain
He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

Mark Rydell
- Good
- Picture