Action Quote by Walter Benjamin

Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given…

— Nathaniel Dorsky

The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us…

— Walter Benjamin

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.…

— Ingmar Bergman

On film, you really have to focus on what you're looking at. You're imprinting a physical image.

— Petra Collins

The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of…

— Sally Potter

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and…

— Greta Gerwig

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

“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

— Jason Silva

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in…

— Anja Niedringhaus

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you…

— Rachel Morrison

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can…

— Wim Wenders