"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)

"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)

"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)

"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)

"A motion picture lives three months at most. There is no use pretending we are making pictures for ages." - Darryl F. Zanuck in Silent Cinema. An introduction van Paolo Cherchi Usai (Londen 2000)