"Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry." ― Conrad Hall Topic(s): History More From Conrad Hall "I realize that every picture isn’t a work of art." "It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema." "Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language." More In History "If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."― Aristotle "I now bid farewell to the country of my birth – of my passions – of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies – whose factions I sought to quell – whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim – whose freedom has been my fatal dream."― Thomas Francis Meagher