Archives Quote by Elisa Kreisinger

Whenever I am abroad, I spend hours and hours at video stores. I look for classics from filmmakers from all over the world.

— Mani Ratnam

I also like looking at a lot of pictures from the era, or if there is any footage.

— Mia Wasikowska

I love archival films very much. I spent thousands of hours watching archive footage. Every time I see it, I see something. Sometimes I…

— Rithy Panh

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the…

— Jean-Luc Godard

We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is…

— Elisa Kreisinger

I hope films will be somehow preserved and seen by as many people as possible in the future. There are endless treasures for audiences…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you…

— Salar Kamangar

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

— Alexander Payne

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

— Adam McKay

When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.

— Grant Heslov

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

— Alexander Payne