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ARCH OBOLER | 1909-1987; radio drama pioneer, 3D cinema pioneer in 1950s | |
1 People just wont endure flat pictures once they have seen living, breathing, rounded Natural Vision on their cinema screens. | • 1952 on release of Bwana Devil | |
2 Within a decade all movies will be in three dimensions, supplanting the absurdity of 2D movies in a 3D world as the electric light supplanted the gaslight. | • c.1970 | |
JOSEPH O'CONNOR | 1963- ; Irish writer | |
Any novel that can't be sung as a three-minute ballad is probably no good. | • source unknown | |
FRANK O'HARA | 1926-1966; American poet | |
Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to it's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow old as grow old you must they won't hate you ... so don't blame me if you won't take this advice and the family breaks up and your children grow old and blind in front of a TV set seeing movies you wouldn't let them see when they were young |
• 'Ave Maria', 1960 | |
Sir/Lord LAURENCE OLIVIER | 1907-1988; British actor, film director, theatre manager | |
[The impression exists] that there is not really sufficient money made by the industry to sustain it and that we are in a feeble position of whining for charity which can only be wasted on a lost cause. British films pay; they pay very well. But they pay the wrong people. | • at Film Industry Employees Council, January 1951 | |
KEN OLSEN | 1926- ; President, Digital Equipment Corporation | |
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. | • 1977 | |
J ROBERT OPPENHEIMER | 1904-1967; US nuclear physicist | |
When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it and you argue about what do to about it only after you have had your technical success. | • Source unknown | |
CRESWELL O'REILLY | Walter Creswell O'Reilly Australian Chief Censor 1929-1942 |
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Moral standards of all films have not improved and therefore there is no grounds for hope that in the near future we will attain the goal of the abolition of all forms of censorship. | • Censor's Annual Report 1931 | |
GEORGE ORWELL | Eric Arthur Blair 1903-1950; English novelist and essayist |
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The result may be a flood of cheap reprints that will cripple the lending libraries and check the output of new novels. This would be a fine thing for literature, but it would be a very bad thing for trade, and when you have to choose between art and moneywell, finish it for yourself. | • On the launch of Penguin paperback books, August 1935 | |
MICHAEL OVITZ | 1946- ; President, Walt Disney Company | |
The new media age lowers barriers to entry. It unleashes vast energy but also potentially undermines standards of reliability, accountability, trust and accuracy. | • 1998? | |
WILLIE OWUSU | Kenyan film director | |
To make a film in Kenya, you've got to be rich or know bosses of funding organisations. Creativity is not needed—as you'll have noticed from our productions. | • 2004, quoted in The Guardian International Film Guide 2005 | |
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