| "We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife." Groucho Marx |
| "One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature." George Jean Nathan |
| "A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad." Samuel Goldwyn |
| "It is worth asking why trailers for feature films most often consist of violent and/or sexual clips. The entertainment industry is disingenuous. On one hand it claims that sex and violence have no effect on viewers, and yet it blatantly uses sex and violence to sell its products." Dr Michael Rice, educational consultant and former special adviser to the minister of education |
| "The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities." Robert Macleod |
| "Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." Dag Hammarskjold |
| "The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up." Cyril Connolly |
| "If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth." Henry Wadworth Longfellow |
| "There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Peter F. Drucker |
| "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "Today they build studios with almost complete isolation on each musician. They sit in little cages and listen on headphones. In my opinion, that's not so good for the creative process. We used to gather around the piano, run over the tunes a few times, and the musicians would get ideas for fills or for rhythm licks, and that was more fun. I know that still goes on, but it's not the same." Chet Atkins |
| "If you're photographing in colour you show the colour of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the colour of their soul." Author Unknown |
| "A film is a petrified fountain of thought." Jean Cocteau |
| "When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity, the only sure result is commercial constipation . . . . The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups." Charles Browder, president of BBDO, 1957. |
| "The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy." Louis Kronenberger |
| "A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask." Susan Sontag, US novelist and essayist, On Photography, 1977. |
