Haskell Wexler Quotes
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
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My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.
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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
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As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
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The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.
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I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.
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I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
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If you are an industry kid, the first film is given to you on a platter. However, the pressure and expectations are immense.
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I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.
