Top 1200 Photography And Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

I had been teaching myself photography.

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

What better way to foray into production than with 'Khaidi No 150.' The film is truly close to my heart because it is my father's 150th film.

'Avunu' is a thriller, suspense film set within a small family with a good mix of scary and funny moments, but not a horror film.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

I've been working with photography for many years.

It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanistic: It touches on motherhood, death, birth, art, laundry, anger against the Bush administration... While I don't think it's the kind of film where one goes to find some of the darker, edgier aspects of life, the film was born of grief.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

I must say here in France I had more serenity or security as I was working because I knew I was making the film the way I wished and that the film would be seen, ultimately, which is not always the case in Iran. In Iran, you always work having in mind this worry of will I be able to carry on my project as I wish and will the audience see the film.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

('Eraserhead') may seem like a dark film, but my father and I watch it, and all we do is laugh. It was Disneyland everyday on the set. That's when I fell in love with film.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

News photography teaches you to think fast.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.

If you don't like a film or do a film out of obligation in a comfortable zone, it would be very painful, but when you do something with passion, interest, and belief in it, it excites you.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

Releasing a film through DTH is a double-edged sword. The opinion formed following the premiere of a film can mar or enhance its business.

I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.

Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.

My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Photography is like an open book to the world.

I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

Biking and photography are a perfect combination for me.

Music is definitely cheaper and more immediate. But part of the draw of film to me is the multidisciplinary aspect. I always enjoyed film writing.