Casts Quote by Paul Virilio

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there…

— Ray Bradbury

A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion…

— Paul Tibbets

Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

— James Nachtwey

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air,…

— Michael Apted

“a television bomb would instantly blind you with its eruption of images as its icons burned through your flesh and imprinted themselves on your…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

— Amy Heckerling

“We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that…

— Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Grave of the Fireflies” is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the…

— Roger Ebert

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time…

— Paul Virilio

We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow…

— Tadatoshi Akiba

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write…

— Tove Jansson

“WHEN JOHN AND MARY KEANE said “during the war,” their children imagined the world gone black and white, imagined a hand passing like a…

— Alice McDermott