James Wong Howe Quotes

Photography must be integrated with the story.

James Wong Howe

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• Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Work
  • Vision
  • Commitment

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Good
  • Done
  • Power

• I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Trouble
  • Because
  • Get

• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

  J Allard
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Family
  • End

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Said
  • Obsession
  • Costs

• During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Feeling
  • Food
  • Picture

• I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Food
  • Fall
  • Sick

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Name
  • Pen

• A lot of comedians are selfish.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Selfish
  • Lot
  • Comedians

• Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good Things

• Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Simple

• Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Baby

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Character

• When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

  

  Connor Franta
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Light

• Photography must be integrated with the story.

  

  James Wong Howe
  • Photography