Cinema Quote by John Updike

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

— Milan Kundera

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

— Ellen Hopkins

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain.…

— Pete Docter

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

— Colson Whitehead

Memory demands an image.

— Bertrand Russell

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details…

— Rick Moody

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

— Louis Malle

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

— Sara Gruen

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and…

— Li-Young Lee

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

— Edward de Bono

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

— David Shields