Iseriouslyobjecttoseeingonthescreenwhat belongs in the bedroom.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz
Attributed maxim. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn,1989).

Cette cloison qui nous se¤  pare du myste'  re des choses et que nous appelons la vie. Life is a screen which separates us from the mystery of things.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.1, bk.1, ch.2.

Se comprende muy bien que el advenimiento del cinemato¤  grafo haya sido para m |¤ el comienzo de un nueva era, por la cual cuento las noches sucesivas en que he salido mareado y pa¤  lido del cine, porque he dejado mi corazo¤  n†en la pantalla que impregno¤   por tres cuartos de hora el encanto de BrownieVernon. It is easy to understand that, for me, cinema was the beginning of a newera which marked my nights, oneafter the other, as I left the theatre, dizzyand pale after leaving my heart on thescreen†on that screen that for forty-five minutes was impregnated by BrownieVernon's charm.

-Quiroga, Horacio
Anaconda,'Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa' ('Miss Dorothy Phillips, MyWife').

The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.

-Shultz, George P(ratt)
  Of summit meetings, particularly that between the US and the Soviets at Reykjavik, Iceland, 9^12 Oct1986. Turmoil and Triumph.