“I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.” ThinkingHas BeensFilmFormMy OwnWalksMaterialsCamerasScriptsCinemaMy Own Life Author:Jonas Mekas
“The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.” KnowsWorldWayRealProblemRealityFormResultsRecordsMaterialsAimCamerasStrivePhotographerChiefsReality Of LifeReal WorldDocumentariesTruthfulness Author:Paul Strand
“The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding the camera and you're adding the idea of adaptation. So the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material that you love and yet not be afraid to step outside of it and introduce elements into it that make it exist in a satisfying, exciting way cinematically.” WayIdeasMovingChallengesStepsParticularMaterialsElementsExcitingCamerasMusicalSatisfyingIntroducingAdaptationUnifyingMoving Parts Author:Marc E. Platt
“The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.” RealUseLightMaterialsKeysPhotographyEssenceCamerasSensitiveCaptureFormation Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
“Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.” FeelsBelieveAbleI BelievePerfectMaterialsSourcePhotographyCamerasRaw Materials Author:Nikolay Semyonov
“The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.” PeopleWayKindArtMadeMatterFilmDoubtObjectsMaterialsSceneBattleBasesCamerasNo Matter WhatArguingGenuineJournalismFilmmakerMovieAntiwarMotion PicturesStardom Author:Renata Adler
“I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.” PeopleWellsAsksWaitingFrontsMaterialsCameras Author:Larenz Tate
“I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotionally direct and honest about how I put the material with the images. You hope that the strength of mise-en-scene comes from an honesty towards the material. You also hire really well.” TryingWellsUseFeelingsActorsHonestHonestyDesignMaterialsSceneDirectCameras Author:Ira Sachs
“The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.” KnowsDoeUsePowerfulSawsMaterialsScenePhotographyIllusionCamerasUnconsciousCapture Book:The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton Source: The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
“The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.” KnowsWorldWantFirstsMadeTwoTogetherLastsFilmTurnsRoomsKnow HowPiecesCuttingMinutesTearsMaterialsCamerasStudiosTurn Me Author:Buster Keaton