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"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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"I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck."
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"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
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"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
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"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."
Power

"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."
Now

"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."
Actor

"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."
Church

"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."
Life

"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."
People

"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
Movies

"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."
Art

"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
Thought

"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."
Optimism
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