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Cecil B. DeMille
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“Motion pictures are the most important contribution to literature and art since the invention of fiction.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Cecil De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art" (1917)
“Who can tell what the years of the future will bring to the art of the motion picture in view of the amazing progress of the past few years.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Cecil De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art" (1917)
“Motion pictures are visualized thought! Do you grasp how different that is from any other of the great arts? The printed word is reserved to those only who can read the language of the publication; music is for the ear that appreciates harmony (not every ear does that), but motion pictures are the universal language, as comprehensive to the American as to the Japanese, as understandable to the African as to the man in the Arctic. Motion pictures are human nature picturized and human nature is the same the world over in every clime.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Cecil De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art" (1917)
“Only those who day by day are in the midst of motion pictures can really appreciate the wonderful opportunities for extraordinary things which the camera permits, and although we are still more or less in the beginning of things (I do not like to think we have really touched the great springs of the art as yet) we are struggling, working, studying all the time to better the production.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Cecil De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art" (1917)
“Joan the Woman was the most interesting undertaking from the point of view of the artists and the director in the history of the pictures, I believe. It is entirely different from the spectacle features, as it is essentially drama, with the story always first and most important and the spectacular features secondary, although many critics have more than praised the battles and scenes of pageantry.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Cecil De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art" (1917)
“Every year a new lesson is learned, but the one precept that never fails to be true is that a good picture will always be well received by the public. During 1933 particularly, the public displayed shrewd taste in supporting pictures which have been produced with great care and the finest of production materials.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Famous Director: His Faith in the Future" (1934)
“Legend rides high with history, but truth follows a lonely trail. I've pursued verity from the museum at Cairo to the smoking tepees of the Cheyennes at Lame Deer, Montana.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Ah, Verity, Verity! Thy Name's DeMille" (1937)
“Most people never achieve stardom until they've had at least one good, serious siege of the grand passion. It doesn't hurt a career. It helps. Leatrice Joy was a smart, capable girl, she had beauty and talent and everything to make her a star. But she was marking time. Then she fell in love with John Gilbert and married him. It changed her completely. She seemed to bloom and blossom. And this new radiance showed in her work. She went right on to the top.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Move Stardom Helped by Love, Says De Mille" (1937)
“This bouquet is not given lightly. I've worked with many of the screen's greatest stars, and, if I were tendering posies merely to strike a popular chord, I should pick one of them. But Tamiroff is so far ahead of the field as a hard-working artist that he easily claims all awards.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Private Lives of Film Stars - Akim Tamiroff" (1938)
“Actors are born, and every human being is born an actor.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Hollywood News: De Mille on Acting" (1941)
“Sensible married women usually stop acting after the honeymoon—but not their husbands. Young men go on acting parts until they reach maturity, and from there to the grave they're preoccupied with the problem of acting normal. Most men, I'm sorry to say, are "hams" at heart.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Hollywood News: De Mille on Acting" (1941)
“It's not just a good part, it's a great part, but until Miss Goddard passed her screen test as Louvette, I hadn't been able to find a Hollywood actress who both looked it and could play it convincingly. What most of the candidates lacked was imagination.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Hollywood News: De Mille on Acting" (1941)
“This will probably be my last film—it will certainly be my biggest.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Desert Gets A Wash-And-Brush-Up For ... Moses' Poses" (1954)
“The phrases, "happy ending" and "unhappy ending" are misnomers. They belong to an era when the public demanded a saccharine finish to every picture, irrespective of whether or not it was logical. Film-goers of 1933 insist upon a new standard in their screen entertainment. They are not particularly concerned about the ending of a picture so long as it is truthful. Naturally, they do not want a preponderance of depressing themes, but I am firmly convinced that they would rather witness a tragic finish that is truthful and logical than a sugar-coated ending that is not. In The Sign of the Cross the problem of bringing the story to a close is one that would have been difficult a few years ago, when the sugary tradition ruled the film industry. But now that the words "happy" and "unhappy" have been deleted from cinema terminology, our task was simplified, and we gave an ending which appeals to logic and intelligence.”
Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Truth and Logic: Now Prime Consideration" (1933)