Quote by Raymond Chandler
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating ad

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler

Other quotes by Raymond Chandler

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Art
Read Quote

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Hair
Read Quote

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Advertising
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Film / Filmmaking / Movies
category

If you cant believe a little in what you see on the screen, its not worth wasting your time on cinema. – Serge Daney

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless — and absolutely essential. – William Goldman

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. – Robert Bresson

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that. – Kim Cattrall

Random Quotes

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Helping

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. – Leonard Bernstein

Category:
Music

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association and affection. – Wendell Berry

Category:
Technology

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with Gods work. – Brooks Atkinson

Category:
Religion