Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. George Eastman
truth can be easily found by taking a camera and trying to be honest. Werner Herzog
I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism. Steven Spielberg
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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”-Ansel Adams
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
George Lucas
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
― Ansel Adams
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. Alfred Hitchcock
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. Alfred Hitchcock
Werner Herzog - By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.
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“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
— Ansel Adams
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”– HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
(1908 – 2004), the father of photojournalism.
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.-Ansel Adams
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”
-Ansel Adams
― Ansel Adams
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“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” ...
“I didn’t choose photography, photography chose me.”
Gerardo Suter
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. Ernst Haas
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. Ansel Adams
John Berger-
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
Steve McCurry
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.
“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”
– Eve Arnold
“I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.”
– Trent Parke
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Ansel Adams
Eliot Porter
The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
Work wherever you can. It doesn't matter what. A documentary, a commercial. Wherever you can get near a camera, especially if you’re a director. You’re not going to be a director until you put your eye into that finder. And it doesn't matter what. There’s no such thing as good work or bad work. There’s only work, at the beginning. Sidney Lumet
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself. Steven Spielberg
"But I also say, you need to look at the old films." Steven Spielberg
William Thackeray
The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
Galen Rowell
Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.”
– Percy W. Harris
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
Eudora Welty
James Wilson
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
Theodore Levitt
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Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.
“Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.”
– Morley Baer
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Aaron Siskind
Ansel Adams
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” — Susan Meiselas
“I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.”
– Rick Steves
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. Annie Leibovitz
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Ansel Adams
There are no rules in film making. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.– Frank Capra
Andre Bazin
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea.”
– Edward Weston
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”– GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950), Nobel Laureate and Oscar-winning playwright (and avid photographer)
“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.”
– Henri Cartier Bresson
“A good photographer records; a great photographer reveals.”
– Skyler Reid
Edward Steichen
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely every hundredth of a second.”
Mark Riboud
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.– Henri Cartier Bresson
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. George Lucas
“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.”
– Ansel Adams
director Stanley Kubrick. "One of the things he said to me that I've always remembered," Nicholson once recalled, "is that you don't try to photograph the reality. You try to photograph the photograph of the reality." Read More: https://anecdotage.com/anecdotes/stanley-kubrick-you-dont-try-to-photograph-the-reality
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” — Steve McCurry
Self-plagiarism is style.
– Alfred Hitchcock
“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”
Leon Levinstein
Robert Heinecken
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
“Where light and shadow fall on your subject – that is the essence of expression and art through photography.”
– Scott Bourne
Garry Winogrand
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
-Robert Frank
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. Ansel Adams
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.–Steven Spielberg
Jean-Luc Godard
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
A photograph is like a recipe – the memory is the finished dish.”
– Carrie Latet
Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression.-Henri Cartier-Bresson
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.
– Ron Howard
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.
Charlie Waite
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. Steven Spielberg
Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life.
― Jarod Kintz
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. Daniel Day-Lewis
I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director. Francis Ford Coppola
“If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.”
~Stanley Kubrick
Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.
– Martin Scorsese
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
― Ansel Adams
“You become a director by calling yourself a director and you then persuade other people that this is true.”
― Peter Brook
Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian. Jean-Luc Godard
Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being a photographer
Walter De Mulder
Photography is a love affair with life.
Burk Uzzle
“Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.” – Joe McNally
'I agree that a film should have a beginning, a middle and an end but not necessarily in that order'.Jean-Luc Godard
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” ― Robert Frank
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.' George Lucas
“I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can.” – John Sexton
“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.” – Cecille B. DeMille
“I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.” – Spike Lee
Eighty Percent of Success is Turning Up.
– Woody Allen
Galen Rowell-
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
Galen Rowell
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
“I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.” – Spike Lee
A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.Dorothea Lange
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.
– James Cameron
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it. John Carpenter
My photography is the result of being there at the right moment. Rene Burri
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. James Cameron
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor:you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it. George Lucas
When you're an actor, you often feel victimized - you see the end result, 'Oh, they didn't use this take; they didn't use that take. How come?' There's no 'How come?' with the director. There's only one person to look at. Walk over to the mirror if you want to know why. But I prefer that. Ron Howard
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.A dominant and recurring theme,
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” – Diane Arbus
George Lucas [on the making of Star Wars (1977)] When you’re directing, you have to get up at four thirty [A.M], have breakfast at five, leave the hotel at six, drive an hour to location, start shooting at eight, and finish shooting around six. Then you wrap, go to your office, and set up the next day’s work. You get back to the hotel about eight or nine, hopefully get a bite to eat, then you go to your room and figure out your homework, how you’re going to shoot the next day’s scenes, then you go to sleep. The next morning it starts all over again.
A good director makes a playground and allows you to play. Martin Landau
“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” – Jay Maisel
“It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get.” – Timothy Allen
“Photography is a language more universal than words.”
– Minor White
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""
Ansel Adams
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.Paul Strand
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange
Kodak’s 10 Tips for Great Pictures
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Look your subject in the eye.
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Use a plain background.
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Use flash outdoors.
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Move in close.
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Move it from the middle.
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Lock the focus.
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Know your flash’s range.
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Watch the light.
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Take some vertical pictures.
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Be a picture director.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. Alfred Eisenstaedt
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. Annie Leibovitz
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, “If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director. George Lucas
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
― Imogen Cunningham
Berenice Abbott-
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.