I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'. . . Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was. . . in the stars for me, no pun intended.
I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that. . . " I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.
Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.
There are very few really stark black and white stories.
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical,". . . But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.
The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.
Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and white flickering images to fully immersive 3D color high-definition. You don't even know where the real world starts and the fake world begins. And yet, none of that's going to matter unless the story and the emotions that they allow us to become invested in are something that we can recognize. Pixar is able to do this in ways that almost defies speculation.
Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.
In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.
In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history. . . . We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.
Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually. . . because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.