David Hockney Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

  David Hockney

  Directors, Looks, Want

• With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  David Hockney

  Photography, War, Editing

  "'Photography is Crumbling'". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2004.

• Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Actors

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

• Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Europe

  "Interview: “John Tusa Interviews David Hockney” (2004)". Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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