Top 1200 Photography And Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

The only way to kill death is through photography.

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.

American film isn't just film and glamor and fame and the lives of people who are fortunate financially. Those aren't the only stories in this vast nation. That's my mandate.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.

I revisit stories and see if they are still living and breathing, because if you do a film you live with that story for another year. I can't do a film in six months and scoot.

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

The parts of a film should be in proportion to the whole, and a long film pasted together out of quick little scenes makes me dizzy.

If a film promotes communal harmony, which for me is beyond religion, I am happy to work on it because the film's premise is in line with my beliefs.

I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.

We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

I get so confused about life photography art.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."

The first film that I saw of Shammi Kapoor was 'Bhramachari.' I instantly fell in love with the film and connected with Shammiji. His style was natural and unique.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.

Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

When I am playing the protagonist of the film, before the release, I feel a certain pressure because I become the face of the film, then, and I have a major responsibility.

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

The makers of 'Ushakaal' said that if I don't do the film they would shelve the project. I didn't want a good subject to be shelved because of me so I went ahead and did the film.