Capturing Life Quotes

I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

The only way to kill death is through photography.

Through these years, I have attempted to create magical moments between my characters because, be it television or films, life is about the moments we create while living through it.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.

With documentaries, what's beautiful about them is that you capture something unique in a shot, something that will never repeat itself.

I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

I make videos about people's stories in a way that is human.