Weegee Quotes

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Power is neither good nor evil.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

If you are using a digital camera specifically for that reason you have in mind from the beginning, then yeah, it'll work. But like if you're just shooting a normal film and just kind of just shooting extra stuff because you can because you've got the memory space, it's a bit pointless.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.

Courage is morally neutral.

I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. Where ominous music comes on-screen so you can't possibly mistake him. Where someone asks you to choose between playing with the beautiful princess in the fragrant garden and being eaten by the hideous monster in the foul-smelling pit. Not exactly a difficult one, now is it? Not something that you would agonize over, or that would make you lose a night's sleep?

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.

Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies written by many authors. Some of its myths, like the Star of Bethlehem, are very beautiful. Others are dull and ugly. Some express lofty ideals, such as the parables of Jesus. Others are morally disgusting.