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“For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.”

“I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“I'm a big fan of Steven Seagal early films. On Deadly Ground, I'll watch that anytime it comes on. That's one of the reasons I wanted to work with him. I remember that he's got a great eye for photography. There was a lot that I learned from that.”

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Author:Michael Jai White

“I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film was so collaborative. I thought as a photographer I could make something that was artistic and that was mine, and I liked that. And it wasn't until I got back into film and I have very small crews and I could do very tiny filmmaking that wasn't 100 people that I still felt that I was making something artistic as a filmmaker. So, you know, I'm an artist, and whether it's photography or film, I want my voice to be there and I think my voice is very strong in this film.”

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Author:Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

“Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.”

Looks Film Directors Photography Productions Designer Costumes

Author:Spike Lee

“See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.”

Ifs Knows Way Ideas Together Film Painting Photography Realising Cheaper Get It Together

Author:David Lynch

“A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.”

People Want Film Photography

Author:Syd Barrett

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

Source: Along some rivers: photographs and conversations

“I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.”

Thinking Way Film Photography Digital Sympathetic Digital Photography

Author:Matthew Modine

“Photography 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.”

“My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.”

Sometimes Matter Use Film Photography Cameras Digital Wet Plates Preference Nikon

Author:Nikki Sixx

“No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.”

Long Stills Matter Enough Film Spirit Photography Photographer Chosen Film Photography

Author:Minor White

“Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.”

Film Memories Photography Sells Great Advertising Film Photography Kodak

Author:Theodore Levitt

“I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.”

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Author:George Lucas

“I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.”

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Author:Josef Koudelka

“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.”

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Author:Minor White

“For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.”

Ifs Mean Reality Film Bits Photography Photographer Capture

Author:Garry Winogrand

“By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.”

Thinking Stills Film Opportunity Missing Waste Photography Standards Photographer Colleagues Temperament Triggers Think Twice

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.”

Film Process Photography Obvious Finished Print Exposed Instantaneous

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.”

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