Elinor Carucci quotes

Elinor Carucci quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world”
-- Elinor Carucci

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“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”
“You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.”

Source : "PBS' Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.keyesarchives.com. December 20, 1999.
“I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.”
“We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now”
“I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist â€¦ Well, a show-off anyway.”

Source : "The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.
“Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.”
“In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.”

Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
“Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.”
“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”
“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

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