Eve Arnold Quotes
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.
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In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
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They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.
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Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.
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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
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If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
