Side by Side Quotes

George Lucas: Film is a 19th century invention. We are at the top of the photochemical process. This is about as far as it's ever going to go.

Keanu Reeves: Unlike film cameras, you don't have to wait a day to see what you've captured. They're no longer dailies, they're immediatelies.

Martin Scorsese: The problem for me is that I still think you need to see rushes later in order to concentrate with the performances or just the movement. I still think you need to see them at a special time.

Charles Herzfeld: The process of shooting film was the Director of Photography's art and secret, and today the cinematographer is monitored on a digital shoot and everything that they're doing can be seen criticised and question.

Joel Schumacher: I also am convinced that everybody is just looking at their hair.

Martin Scorsese: My big concern is of the image, ultimately with CGI, I don't know if our younger generation is believing anything anymore on screen, it's not real.

Keanu Reeves: You're presenting a complete unreality and making them feel like it's real, whereas before was captured in reality.

Christopher Nolan: There are no archival formats worth anything in the digital realm that you would put any stock in.

Martin Scorsese: The only way you can make sure that a film or anything on the moving image is going to be around sixty or seventy years from now, interestingly enough, ironically enough, is celluloid.

Gary Einhaus: Film is unique because film is a capture medium and a storage medium. So if you really want to go back and if you've stored it under the right conditions, a hundred years later all you have to do is shine light through it...

George Lucas: There's too much digital information out there not to figure out a fool proof way to store it forever.

Michael Chapman: In a way, cinema was the church of the 20th century.

Joel Schumacher: The people who've come before us gave the world new ways to dream. I think it's our job to continue that and to try to give people new ways to dream.

Darnell Martin: Digital brings you speed. And it almost challenges you in the sense of, can I think that fast? Do I need time to breathe.

David Tattersall: [about quality of digital] They would say, why are you going backwards? But there's a lot to be said about the necessity to kind of lean back in order to spring forward.

Richard Linklater: There used to be that encumbrance where film makers were guys who sat around in a coffee shops saying what great films they would make if the man would ever give them a chance. It was kind of great when the day came that is was, well, go do it.