Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Now, we used to say we put on our tights to put on the world. So I don't think it tarnishes the image at all.
I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.
[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Taking photos is a form of collecting.
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.
I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.
I was offered 10 Sultan Qureshi-type roles after 'Gangs of Wasseypur.' But I did not want to repeat that, as I have little fear of being rejected by the people.
The camera is the eye of history.
We, as a team, failed with 'Mister,' as the film failed in many aspects. I clearly know that my fans were deeply hurt, and that is the reason I told them during the audio launch that I will only do films that suit my age and image.
If you notice, no child star made it big when s/he grew up because the child's image was still fresh in people's memory. They could not digest the fact that the child star had grown into a man.
Protect your reputation. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.
The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.
I don't remember taking pictures with eighty percent of the people that I have taken pictures with.
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
