Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

There's something very satisfying about old cameras because they're ingenious. I mean when you take them apart and actually see, 'Oh, this is how we make photographs,' it's an ingenious thing, but it feels like it's in a way a layman can appreciate, whereas a digital camera, I don't even begin to know what goes into making a digital camera.

I could live without my phone. And one thing I'd love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the '80s.

I grew up in a time when we didn't have the Internet, and we didn't have smartphones and things like that.

I'm from that generation where there aren't that many pictures of me as a baby.

I think the days before cell phones, when it was dirt clod wars at construction sites, was a lot more wholesome and productive, to be perfectly honest.

When I grew up, there was no TV, nothing. The guitar could be my whole life. The kids today have Internet and TV and games and all that stuff.

When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones back then, we didn't even have cell phones. I loved having a camera in my hand.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

I had 8-tracks when I was a kid.

I've always loved technology. Growing up, I loved Nintendo and video games.

I was a kid when the Tamagotchi craze hit, and I was always envious of my friends and cousins who got to hand-rear their little digital babies.

We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

I loved playing video games when I was younger, loved playing with Legos - the tech nerd, that was me for sure.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.

We are always taking a hard look at how life was in the past in coming up with interesting subject matter for our various series, and remembering how much I used to want an encyclopedia as a kid made me realize wanting a set is very unlikely for teens today, and that conversation would be interesting.

Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.

Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of patience - wonderful. They restore to us knowledge of a place we seek but lose in the rush of our search. Though to enjoy even the pictures, much less the space itself, requires that we be still longer than is our custom.