"Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work with as little equipment as possible. If I have a good lens and a steady camera, that's all I need."

-- Sven Nykvist

#Needs Quotes #Littles Quotes #Technique Quotes

“The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself.”
“Go home, Gideon. Please." "I am home." He caught me from behind and buried his face in mu soaked hair. "I'm with you.”
“The longer we delay, the more we will pay.”
“The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.”

Source : "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.”
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.”
“Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.”

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