film quotes

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film. They advertise memories.

First Person : "Is that camera fully automatic?" Second Person : "No. You have to take the film to the chemist!"

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don''t have the film.

If you use film you can't see it, so you need to feel it.

Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.

Since that was your last flashbulb, shouldn't you have loaded the film before taking the picture?

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That’s the only way they are going to find themselves. They can’t do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.

A friend of mine who teaches film-making at a well-known school was approached by a noted brain surgeon who asked that he be given a two-week crash course in film-making because of a film he wanted to produce. “Okay,” my friend said, but I won’t charge you for the course if you’ll swap me a two-week course in brain surgery. That’s something I’ve always wanted to do.

Anybody doesn’t like these pitchers don’t like poetry, see? Anybody don’t like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

I am constructing images, they just don't pop up on my film.

Film is what occurs on your teeth when you don't brush.