Quotation
You can make a pinhole camera out of anything hollow and dark.
-It's gotta warp the image though, right?
Yeah, yeah it does. … and depending on how the pinhole eats the light, it's gonna be warped and peculiar and imperfect and odd, and it's not gonna be reproduction, it's storytelling. It's a lie that tells the truth.
I don't know about truths. A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, less you know.
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And Stephen said something else, once. "The perfect con is one where everyone gets just the thing they wanted."