“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.” IfsLooksArtHandsBitsPaperPhotographyCamerasVideoBoresPencilsVideo Cameras Author:David Hockney
“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.” FilmFormActorsBornRoomsPiecesPaperThirdsCamerasFinalsFinishedEditing Author:Robert Bresson
“I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.” UseFrontsPaperCamerasDragPencilsRelievedTyping Book:William Wegman: Funney/strange Source: William Wegman: Funney/strange
“We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.” FormActingWrittenFrontsPaperComfortableMusicianCamerasVideoActing Out Author:Ludacris
“There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.” ThinkingYearsUseFilmWifeColorPaperCamerasBlindMy WifePlentyGoing OutManufacturing Author:William Eggleston
“[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about. What you are about. Don't even take a camera into your hands before you figure that out.” ThinkingHandsLife IsAdviceFiguresPaperCamerasPhotographerPencils Author:Tina Barney
“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.” WayYearsMatterLightFilmBlackTermBreakWeekPaperLowsOrdinaryHundredCamerasComplicatedOne WayBreaking DownSimplestExposureSpoilExposing Author:Jonathon Keats
“I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.” WritingMindReasonBigsRememberLostFeltForgetMistakeRecordsPaperCamerasHolidayPensRelianceDiariesBotheredSnapshotsBig MistakeJilted Author:Alex Garland