Cinema Quote by Allan Sekula Download Open image “The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.” — Allan Sekula ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Film Film Political Human Likeness Humans Likeness Likeness Film Political Political act Politics
Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a… — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about… — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
It didn't even occur to me that I could use my strong image in cinema to propagate my political ideas. To me, cinema was… — Vijayashanti Copy Share Image
Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film. — Cameron Dallas Copy Share Image
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs? — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror,… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
