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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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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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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In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.
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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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The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.
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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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I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
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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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When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.
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One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.
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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
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When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.
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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.
