Photography quotes

“I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh

“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”
Man Ray

“I'm not always great in pictures, but I'm always true to the Japanese spirit.”
Toshirō Mifune

“- Walter Mitty: When are you going to take it?
- Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.”

Ben Stiller - Walter Mitty
Sean Penn - Sean O'Connell

“I brought you this book... and this photo. I'm not smiling in it. I don't know how to do that... hold a smile.”
Nicole Kidman - Ada Monroe

“Photography's an art. You gotta have the right film, you gotta have the right exposure, and you got to scream just before they get the food to their mouth.”

Learned a new word today. "Atom bomb". It was like the God taking a photograph.
Christian Bale - Jim

“When I think of why I make pictures, the reason that I can come up with just seems that I've been making my way here. It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life is making my way here to you.”
Clint Eastwood - Robert Kincaid

“I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.”
Man Ray

“Paintings are so passe. I call this a snapshot.”

Nicolas Cage - Grug

“- Watson: Your Majesty, do you think I could have a picture of us together?
- Queen Victoria: But who is going to take the photograph?
- Watson: Oh, no, I'll take the photograph. You see, it's a type of a self-photograph. I can take it, and I will be in it also.
- Holmes: You know what? I find, to take the most attractive photographs, you need...” (continue)(continue reading)
John C. Reilly - Dr. Watson
Pam Ferris - Queen Victoria
Will Ferrell - Sherlock Holmes

“- Steve: Your bones...
- Lora Meredith: What about my bones?
- Steve: They're perfect. My camera could easily have a love affair with you.”
John Gavin - Steve Archer
Lana Turner - Lora Meredith

“I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it. It's our dreams, doctor, that carry us on. They separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't want to go on living...” (continue)(continue reading)
Josephine Hull - Veta Louise Dowd Simmons

“- Gay Keane: Have you ever realized what a lot you can learn from photographs?
- Sir Simon Flaquer: The social footsteps of time.”
Ann Todd - Gay Keane
Charles Coburn - Sir Simon Flaquer

“Are these photographs for narcissistic or publicity purposes?”
Mick Jagger - Turner

“You know what made photographers like Robert Cappa great, Rich? They weren't after money, they captured the nobility of human suffering!”
John Savage - John Cassady

- Chloe: [takes a selfie with Kaulder] Say "Witch Hunter"...
- Kaulder: Witch Hunter.

Rose Leslie - Chloe
Vin Diesel - Kaulder

“- Colleen: I don't really like my photo being taken...
- Hemmings: [mocking] I don't really like my photo being taken...”
Claudia Lee - Colleen
Kal Penn - Peter Hemmings

“It's a shame to not have more photos around the house. I guess we didn't see the point of taking pictures of ourselves.”
Charlotte Rampling - Kate Mercer

“This picture was conceived in a state of emergency, shot in confusion, and wound up in a blind panic.”

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“- Ben: Carter, stop agitating them.
- Carter: What? I need a new profile pic.”

Tye Sheridan - Ben Goudy
Logan Miller - Carter Grant

“- Pamela Abbott: Who do you look more like, your mother or your father?
- Doug Holt: Oh, I don't know.
- Pamela Abbott: What did your father look like?
- Doug Holt: Like a photograph.”
Liv Tyler - Pamela Abbott
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt

“- Jem: Is that us?
- Erica Raymond: No, it's Photoshop.”
Aubrey Peeples - Jem
Juliette Lewis - Erica Raymond

“Nothing is as priceless as the prom picture.”
Matthew Lillard - Tim

“People take pictures of the happy moments in their lives. Someone looking through our photo album would conclude that we had led a joyous, leisurely existence free of tragedy.”

Robin Williams - Seymour Parrish