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Quotes from Cecil De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art — Cecil B. DeMille

1881–1959 United States

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Motion pictures are the most important contribution to literature and art since the invention of fiction.

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 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 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 De Mille Gives Views on Pictures and Art (1917)

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