Cinema Quote by Steven Jay Schneider

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more…

— Galen Rowell

“So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even…

— Salman Rushdie

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to…

— Claire Denis

“When confronted with the idea of a digital camera, leaders repeatedly asked, “Where’s the film? There’s no film?”

— Adam M. Grant

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

— Diane Arbus

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

— Jean-Luc Godard

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera... notes with relentless fidelity.

— Berenice Abbott

In a drama, the camera doesn't exist. In a documentary, it does.

— Gareth Edwards

“Cinema reflects mankind's historical drive to manifest his consciousness outside of his mind, in front of his eyes”

— Geroge Youngblood

It's the angle that shows how we see differently. I have always believed that all documentaries are fictional. It's really the angle of the…

— Darius Khondji

Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic approach. You…

— Rithy Panh

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

— James Wong Howe