Firsts Quote by Wim Wenders

Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.

— Marissa Meyer

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

“Pictures capture a single frame, but great photographers reveal the stories waiting to be discovered within.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

— Stephen Mitchell

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into…

— Pete Docter

“A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.”

— Brendan T. Kelly

Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.

— Michael Kenna

“Every picture ever taken is a fraction of a second, frozen in time forever.”

— G.J. Walker-Smith

Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns…

— Vera Nazarian

I had felt for some time that audience involvement with a film should begin with its first frame.

— Saul Bass

“There's always a "time and place" for photography.”

— April Anderson

I very much feel like I'm part of the makeup of 'Once Upon a Time.'

— Jamie Dornan