Film Quotes

No matter how slow the film, spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.

Minor White

The negative is the equivalent of the composer'sìPhotography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything

Aaron Siskind

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts

Minor White

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film

Robert Adams

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.

Unknown

The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.

William Friedkin

The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.

Unknown

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

John Lasseter

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

F. Murray Abraham

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Walter Murch

I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I would not fall all the way.

Ryan Gosling

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

Jim Fowler

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.

Ben Edwards

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.

Charles Sanders Peirce

When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.

Michelangelo Antonioni
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