Camera Stills Quotes & Sayings

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else. — Steve Albini

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

Seeing is itself touched with elegy. Reality seems to press its light into us, it is happening, but that's not the way things are. The eye can process only so many images per second, taking in sights the way a camera takes a series of stills. The reality we see is the sketchpad comics we made as kids, me and my brothers and sister. Draw a stickman taking a step on one page, and on the next draw that same figure, only his foot is slightly further ahead, and again on the next page, draw this figure, but with his foot on the ground. Flip through them quickly, and he appears to walk. That's the mechanics of the eye, too. We think we are seeing life as it happens, but pictures are missing. Moments disappear between the stills and make up our unwitnessed lives. To see is to miss things. Loss is always with us. — Ryan Knighton

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. — Charles Lamb

I feel the sensuous side of Richa Chadda is ready to be tapped. — Pooja Bhatt

In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That's because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days. — Stephen J. Dubner

I'm an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets. — Mike Oldfield

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged. — Ha-Joon Chang

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look. — Marilyn Monroe

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist. — Douglas Rushkoff

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before. — Stanislaw Lem

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There's nothing complicated about it. — Akira Kurosawa