Ernst Haas Quotes

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

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• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • You
  • Never
  • Process

• What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Job
  • Try
  • Field

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Team

• A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Small

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

  

  Ben Jonson
  • April

• Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Money
  • Boy

• My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Father

• I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Friends
  • Crazy
  • Drama

• Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.

  

  David Zabel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.

  

  Philippe Falardeau
  • American

• I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

  

  Alice Englert
  • School

• If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Breathe

• I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

  

  Ben Savage
  • Nice

• Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • College
  • King

• I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

  

  Bronson Pinchot
  • Hair
  • Gym

• But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Society
  • Space
  • Passion

• I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

  

  Paul Newman
  • Chance
  • Checks

• I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Photography
  • Kill
  • Discovered

• A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Photography
  • Films

• 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
  • Photography
  • Cameras
  • Limitation