Famous quotes containing the words motion picture, motion, picture and/or drama:
“Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success—had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)
“... The festival-colored brightness
That is their motion ...”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)