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Dustin Hoffman
"This is the first century to have been preserved on film ... maybe." - Dustin Hoffman in Our movie heritage van Tom Mc Greevey en Joanne L. Yeck (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London 1997)
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Martin Scorsese
"By not preserving film, we're committing cultural suicide. It's madness not to preserve it." - Martin Scorsese in Our movie heritage van Tom Mc Greevey en Joanne L. Yeck (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London 1997)
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Frederick Wiseman
"I would like you also to think about the possibility that the documentary film of our time may be the entertainment film of the next century." - Frederick Wiseman in Our movie heritage by Tom Mc Greevey en Joanne L. Yeck (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London 1997)
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Orson Welles
"Film has a personality, and that personality is self-destructive. The job of the archivist is to anticipate what the film may do - and prevent it." - Orson Welles uit This film is dangerous. A celebration of nitrate film. Roger Smither (red.) voor FIAF (Brussel 2002)
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Henri Langlois
"In a can it is nothing. A film is preserved when it is on a screen in front of an audience with people reacting to it." - Henri Langlois in Our movie heritage by Tom Mc Greevey en Joanne L. Yeck (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London 1997)