Weegee Quotes

Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking.

What I did, anybody can do.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer.

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

To me, pictures are like blintzes – ya gotta get ’em while they’re hot.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture…it’s gotta be good.

News photography teaches you to think fast.