Quotes About Film Photography

#1. Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.

Rebecca McNutt

#2. The only advantage of the CD is that you have a booklet that can tell a bit of a story, but the little covers are just boring. I love vinyl, and I have loads of it. It's the same thing as digital photography versus film photography. It's a quality thing.

Anton Corbijn

#3. I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Francesco Carrozzini

#4. I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Rosie O'Donnell

#5. I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

Mary Ellen Mark

#6. 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.

Garry Winogrand

#7. 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.

Aaron Siskind

#8. I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want ... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

Don McCullin

#9. It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

Lewis Baltz

#10. You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.

Seamus McGarvey

#11. Super 8 film is the language of silence.

Rebecca McNutt

#12. Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all the possibilities and make the one possibility work the best for you, so you have to become very creative with the direction you've chosen.

Anton Corbijn

#13. And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

John Sexton

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

Diane Arbus

#15. For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

IO Tillett Wright

#16. I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

Anton Corbijn

#17. There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

Freeman Patterson

#18. If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Matthew Modine

#19. In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4 film specifically, and I love it. I love it because I know what it does, how it really responds to light.

Carrie Mae Weems

#20. A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.

Jonathan Lethem

#21. To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

Roger Deakins

#22. I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Sydney Pollack

#23. I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

Paul Kane

#24. 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.

Spike Lee

#25. I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

Jordan Bridges

#26. Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

Theodore Levitt

#27. My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning to collaborate with more people, since photography for me is a very solitary process.

Maya Goded

#28. Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

Abhijeet Sawant

#29. All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

Lauren Greenfield

#30. Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.

Walker Evans

#31. 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.

Edward Weston

#32. Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Kodak Eastman

#33. [Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.

Christian Marclay

#34. I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

Anton Yelchin

#35. I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Ray Harryhausen

#36. Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

Gordon Willis

#37. I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.

Eric Bana

#38. When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, 'Oh my god.' You just have so much more to play with.

Lynn Shelton

#39. For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Matthew Modine

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

Josef Koudelka

#41. To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

John Sexton

#42. I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

Ori Gersht

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

Matthew Modine

#44. Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself ...

Rebecca McNutt

#45. 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.

George Lucas

#46. We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched ... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#47. Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.

Edwin Land

#48. Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Major Owens

#49. My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.

Ralph Gibson

#50. 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.

Nikki Sixx

#51. Photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

#52. I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#53. I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

Leon Golub

#54. I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

Kara Swisher

#55. Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

Todd Walker

#56. it was montage that gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from mere animated photography, in short, creating a language.

Andre Bazin

#57. It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Val Kilmer

#58. The reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

Lev Manovich

#59. A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

Ivan Klima

#60. 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.

David Lynch

#61. From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.

Greta Salpeter

#62. I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

Anton Corbijn

#63. I'll be in # Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want to lock the locations before Christmas as everyone goes into vacation mode after that,

Pooja Bhatt

#64. I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer ... I'm not anti-digital; I just think, for me, film works better.

Mary Ellen Mark