Yves Behar Quotes

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it's not the theatre, it's not done over again. It's done in bits and pieces. Things are happening which you can't get again. I forbid anyone to say "Cut", the soundman, the operator, or whatever.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

I'm actually not so sure what I'm hoping to find making photographs. You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people. I don't know how I go about it. I also don't know how exactly what I set out to get other than these two things.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

A camera gives you a purpose.