Photography quotes

“I'd have got a swell picture of a charging rhino, but the cameraman got scared. The darn fool, I was right there with a rifle! Seems he didn't trust me to get the rhino before it got him. I haven't fooled with a cameraman since; I do it myself.”

Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham

“- Max Dugan: No, Mike, not me.
- Michael McPhee: Why not?
- Max Dugan: Well, certain primitive tribes believe that pictures steal your soul, and I don't have too much soul.”

Jason Robards - Max Dugan
Matthew Broderick - Michael McPhee

“When I think of why I make pictures, the reason that I can come up with just seems that I've been making my way here. It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life is making my way here to you.”
Clint Eastwood - Robert Kincaid

“It took me five months to shoot my Playmate of the Yearlayout. I shot over 20,000 pictures. It's perfection! They don't go for just great nude shots. They go for art! Perfect art. And I'm proud of that.”
Mariel Hemingway - Dorothy Stratten