Cecil B. DeMille Quotes
"The public is always right"
"You are here to please me. Nothing else on earth matters." - to his crew
"Give me any two pages of the Bible and I`ll give you a picture."
(on the set of "North West Mounted Police" (1940) when Tom Hightree`s war whoops became too enthusiastic.) "Mr. Hightree, please - If you just moderate it a little. It`s too harrowing. After all, this is only a massacre."
"It was a theory that died very hard that the public would not stand for anyone dressed in clothes of another period....I got around this objection by staging what we call a vision. The poor working girl was dreaming of love and reading `Tristan and Isolde.` The scene faded out, and scenes were depicted on the screen that the girl was supposed to be reading....Thus a bit of costume picture was put over on the man who bought the picture for his theater, and there was no protest from the public."
Every time I make a picture the critics` estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
A picture is made a success not on a set but over the drawing board.
I make my pictures for people, not for critics.
I didn`t write the Bible and didn`t invent sin.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
