A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Ivor Novello
2
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello
3
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
Ivor Novello
4
After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
Ivor Novello
5
As the growth of the film industry has progressed from humble beginnings to its present important position, the play has prospered.
Ivor Novello
6
British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
Ivor Novello
7
Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.
Ivor Novello
8
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
Ivor Novello
9
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
Ivor Novello
10
Love-making is an art which must be studied.
Ivor Novello
11
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
Ivor Novello
12
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
Ivor Novello
13
The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.
Ivor Novello
14
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
Ivor Novello
15
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
Ivor Novello
16
The pictures are designed to portray human emotions, good and evil, fine and tawdry; and it is no wonder that their appeal is so universal.
Ivor Novello
17
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
Ivor Novello
18
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
Ivor Novello
19
Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
Ivor Novello
20
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
Ivor Novello
21
Whenever I am asked if I go to hear my Fortune told, I invariably reply, No. I don't go because I don't believe in it-I believe in it too much!
Ivor Novello
