It’s funny how such interesting messages can be delivered in such short statements. Here’s a good one from a very smart man, Red Digital Cinema founder Jim Jannard, delivered in 2008:
“The camera is arguably one of the most important of all inventions. It is the single tool that has the ability to stop time, record history, generate art, tell stories and communicate messages that transcend language like nothing else ever conceived.”
I totally agree. I worship the camera, the camera sees it all; it doesn’t clap, it doesn’t lie. It just remembers, twenty-four photos every second. When the curtains close and the set’s torn down, when nobody remembers the name of the PA, or what the scene we were shooting that day, the camera will. It’s the last witness, the last truth-teller, the only reason any of this matters.
Good advertising copy!