| "A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it." O. Henry |
| "There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." Ansel Adams |
| "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world." Archimedes, 230 BC. |
| "Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow." Philip James Bailey |
| "From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape." Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). |
| "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller |
| "I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence." Man Ray |
| "Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings." Kathy Bates |
| "To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body—both go together, they can’t be separated." Jean-Luc Godard |
| "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." Malcolm Forbes |
| "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them." Henry David Thoreau |
| "A day without laughter is a day wasted." Charlie Chaplin |
| "Film spectators are quiet vampires." Jim Morrison |
| "The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets." Plato |
| "Film and video do more for creating an understanding of what South Africa is about than does tourism." Dumisani Phakathi, independent filmmaker. |
| "The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking." Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun. |
| "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London (1876 - 1916) |
| "The best dreams we often have are those that take us beyond what we may think is possible." Dr Mamphela Ramphela |
| "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." R. Serling |
| "I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." Orson Welles |
| "A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there." Daryl Hannah |
| "We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife." Groucho Marx |
| "One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature." George Jean Nathan |
| "A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad." Samuel Goldwyn |
| "It is worth asking why trailers for feature films most often consist of violent and/or sexual clips. The entertainment industry is disingenuous. On one hand it claims that sex and violence have no effect on viewers, and yet it blatantly uses sex and violence to sell its products." Dr Michael Rice, educational consultant and former special adviser to the minister of education |
| "The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded; if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities." Robert Macleod |
| "Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." Dag Hammarskjold |
| "The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up." Cyril Connolly |
| "If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth." Henry Wadworth Longfellow |
| "There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Peter F. Drucker |
