Film Preservation Quotes

Overtaken by demographic transformation and two generations of socio-geographic mobility, France's once-seamless history seemed set to disappear from national memory altogether.

The anxiety of loss had two effects. One was an increase in the range of the official patrimoine, the publicly espoused body of monuments and artifacts stamped 'heritage' by the authority of the state. In 1988, at the behest of Mitterrand's Culture Minister Jack Lang, the list of officially protected items in the patrimoine culturel of "France - previously restricted to UNESCO-style heirlooms such as the Pont du Gard near Nîmes, or Philip the Bold's ramparts at Aigues-Mortes - was dramatically enlarged.

It is revealing of the approach taken by Lang and his successors that among France's new 'heritage sites' was the crumbling façade of the Hôtel du Nord on Paris's Quai de Jemappes: an avowedly nostalgic homage to Marcel Carné's 1938 film classic of that name. But Carné shot that movie entirely in a studio. So the preservation of a building (or the façade of a building) which never even appeared in the film could be seen - according to taste - either as a subtle French exercise in post-modern irony, or else as symptomatic of the unavoidably bogus nature of any memory when subjected thus to official taxidermy. ~ Tony Judt

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful. ~ Mariska Hargitay

Nature does require her times of preservation. ~ William Shakespeare

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life. ~ Clara Zetkin

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation. ~ Rosamond Lehmann

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. ~ Agatha Christie

I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation. ~ Rickson Gracie

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law. ~ Thomas Jefferson

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society. ~ Ray Davies

Good preservation is a life preserver thrown to us in a shipwreck. Good preservation keeps us in touch with the graces of this life. It's bricks and mortar, yes. It's arguments about true colors and authenticity and representation. But true preservation is like the hand that shelters a fire from the wind. It protects the spark of life.
Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax, Twice ~ Howard Mansfield

Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as 'me,' instead of letting 'me' run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation. ~ Ed Rendell

When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin. ~ Meljean Brook

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. ~ Jodi Picoult

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities. ~ Boris Sidis

Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. ~ Baruch Spinoza

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength
life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics. ~ Joseph Brodsky

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. ~ Baruch Spinoza

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. ~ Gerald Durrell

How many men have asked you to marry them?'

'Not a lot. Most had too strong an instinct for self-preservation. ~ Penelope Lively

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases. ~ William Harvey

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation. ~ John Adams

That form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves ... ~ Marcel Proust

My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul is to be killed, in an act of true love, by the one who loves me most.. ~ Bree Despain

Self-preservation is as important as generosity. Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give. ~ Meg Wolitzer

If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge to corporations, we will have neither access nor preservation. ~ Barbara Fister

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species. ~ Adolf Hitler

Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything. ~ Jerry Lewis

Perfect preservation isn't life, it's death. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe. ~ Robert Boyle

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct ~ Sunday Adelaja

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity. ~ Francois Fenelon

In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good. ~ N.D. Wilson

You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself. ~ Mike Tyson

A focus on self-preservation is a choice for self-destruction. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity. ~ C.L. Allen

Film theory has nothing to do with film. ~ Roger Ebert

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. ~ Berenice Abbott

Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring. ~ Jamie Hector

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film. ~ Francois Truffaut

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. ~ Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Psychologists should bethink themselves before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength - life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof. In short, here, as everywhere else, let us beware of SUPERFLUOUS teleological principles! - one of which is the instinct of self-preservation (we owe it to Spinoza's inconsistency). ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task. ~ Murray Gell-Mann

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom. ~ Ronald Reagan

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody. ~ Richard Moe

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema? ~ Christy Lemire

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. ~ Tim Cahill

With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see . ~ Peter Jackson

There is no solution available, I assure you, to save Earth's biodiversity other than the preservation of natural environments in reserves large enough to maintain wild populations sustainably. Only Nature can serve as the planetary ark. ~ Edward O. Wilson

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. ~ Herbert Spencer

What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection. ~ Charles Darwin

Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts of self-preservation would not take over in an emergency. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade. ~ Jean Cocteau

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries. ~ Zahi Hawass

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first. ~ Jay Presson Allen

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart. ~ David Denby

A film that can be described in words is not really a film. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it. ~ Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

If we could tell a film, then why make a film? ~ Jafar Panahi

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ~ John Locke

Self-preservation is the fundamental motive of the passions, according to Spinoza; but self-preservation alters its character when we realize that what is real and positive in us is what unites us to the whole, and not what preserves the appearance of separateness. ~ Anonymous

ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT. ~ Film Crit Hulk!

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. ~ Aldo Leopold

Thus the activity of preservation should be distinguished from the nostalgia accompanying fantasies of a lost home from which the subject is separated and to which he seeks to return. Preservation entails remembrance, which is quite different from nostalgia. ~ Iris Marion Young

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film. ~ Emma Thompson

The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes. ~ Boris Sidis

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film. ~ Noomi Rapace

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame. ~ Jeff Wall

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. ~ Ingmar Bergman

Now the situation could be resolved, and we could put this behind us -- both the awkward misunderstandings and the misguided attempts at self-preservation. Though both of those would probably happen in the future anyway. ~ Wataru Watari

We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which not only assures the preservation of its nationality, but by the development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the highest freedom. ~ Adolf Hitler

But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself. ~ Michael Grunwald

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea, ~ Wallace Stegner

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way. ~ Anthony LaPaglia

I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes. ~ Joe Swanberg

Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety. ~ Walter Lang

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. ~ Donnie Yen

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film
certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation. ~ Peter Greenaway

In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set. ~ Ben Whishaw

Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation. ~ Thomm Quackenbush

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~ Sue Kelly

I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long. ~ Chika Anadu

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth. ~ Cate Blanchett

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks. ~ Ben Mendelsohn

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!" ~ Louis Garrel

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart. ~ Bill Crawford

To make a film you have to dream a film ... that's true of poetry as well. ~ Frank Bidart