Depardon Quotes & Sayings

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars. — Mark Twain

For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders. — Gene Roddenberry

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys. — Larry Bird

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him. — Raymond Depardon

My time with Ferrari was wonderful. I have found friends and had experiences that I would not want to be without. — Michael Schumacher

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father. — Raymond Depardon

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it. — Raymond Depardon

When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film. — Raymond Depardon

I like to be on my own when I look at my contact sheets, because I'm often disappointed ... But as years go by we become proud of our old contact sheets. They are a tool that allows us to fight against time. — Raymond Depardon

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is. — Brian Austin Green

The always popular notion that the United States is in "moral decline" (a phrase favored in the pulpits and the press of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) rests on the assumption that Americans used to be far more religious and should strive to return to their former fidelity. — Peter Manseau

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer — Raymond Depardon

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image. — Raymond Depardon

My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job,' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.'
'That is really lovely,' my mom said. I liked that they liked each other. 'But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.'
'True. Consciousness makes for poor windows, too. I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite that way. — John Green

I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection. — Thomas De Maiziere

The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs. — Raymond Depardon