Cinema Quote by Steven Sebring

When I started photographing Patti [Smith], I knew that there wasn't a whole a lot of information out there about her. I was periodically…

— Steven Sebring

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day,…

— Steven Sebring

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

— Gavin Rossdale

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

— Steven Sebring

I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God, Patti Smith!"…

— Steven Sebring

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

— Steven Sebring

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have…

— Steven Sebring

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

— Steven Sebring

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

— Shirley Knight

It was always my dream to be a New York theater actor. I never thought I was pretty enough to be on camera.

— David Harbour

I didn't want to be an actress. It wasn't a dream. I didn't have any dreams at all.

— Sandrine Bonnaire

I quickly realized that Patti [Smith] was somebody very special.

— Steven Sebring