Walter Benjamin Quotes
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter Benjamin
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
Tamara Tunie
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
Lance Ito
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
D. A. Pennebaker
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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.
Gabriella Wilde
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. King
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The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
Natasha Henstridge
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye
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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.
F. Sionil Jose
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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.
Hailee Steinfeld
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
G. Edward Griffin
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Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
Zhang Xin
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The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.
Djimon Hounsou
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell
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Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
Adele
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Obviously, the fate of our own species concerns us disproportionately. But at the risk of sounding anti-human—some of my best friends are humans!—I will say that it is not, in the end, what’s most worth attending to. Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this, and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy. The Sixth Extinction will continue to determine the course of life long after everything people have written and painted and built has been ground into dust and giant rats have—or have not—inherited the earth.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter Benjamin
