Antonin Kratochvil famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.
-- Antonin Kratochvil

#Cameras #Use #Way
I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.
-- Antonin Kratochvil

#Suicide #Country #Lying
Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.
-- Antonin Kratochvil

#Artist #Soul #Said

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

Antonin Kratochvil famous quotes

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