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

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Hollywood
Read Quote

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Public
Read Quote

Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Attitude
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

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

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you cant teach old fleas new dogs. – Federico Fellini

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. – Robert Bresson

Random Quotes

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Duality

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Technology

The true index of a mans character is the health of his wife. – Cyril Connolly

Category:
Health

If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often thats forgotten. – Stephen Hunter

Category:
amazing