Quotes from Weegee

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

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

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

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

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.