Hollis Frampton Quotes

#1. If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Jennifer Tilly

#2. He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at the bottom of the sea ...

Anais Nin

#3. The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

Victoria Abril

#4. We know the many noises and the many uglinesses of the universe and that's why we take refuge to the silences and to the beauties!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

Ringo Starr

#6. A film is a machine made of images

Hollis Frampton

#7. To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.

Hollis Frampton

#8. A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

Hollis Frampton

#9. When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

Hollis Frampton

#10. He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

Hollis Frampton

#12. Train wrecks waiting to happen were mesmerizing.

Olivia Cunning

#13. If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

Hollis Frampton