Monica Vitti Quotes

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

Monica Vitti

• Cameras
• Completely
• Unwilling

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• I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Me
  • Pressure

• I didn't know then, and I don't know now, whether she was the owner of the world's best poker face or was just naturally stupid, but whichever she was, she was thoroughly and completely it.

  

  Dashiell Hammett
  • Face
  • Completely
  • Thoroughly

• There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

  

  Weegee
  • Religious
  • Cameras
  • Photographer

• The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Care
  • Dumb
  • Cameras

• I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Cameras

• There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • World
  • Work
  • Different

• I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. There's an infinite amount of places for so many things, so you have to figure out how to do your job.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Choices

• I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.

  

  David Douglas
  • Control
  • Relation
  • Cameras

• I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Cameras
  • Crowds

• You want to be accepted by people. For 99 percent of his career, he has been and for that to completely change now, I think is something I don't know if any of us can comprehend what he's going through. By his expressions, you can tell that it is definitely beating him up.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Career
  • Change
  • Percent

• My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

  

  William Eggleston
  • School
  • Photography
  • Cameras

• I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Way
  • Persons
  • Cameras

• Adam picks up the camera "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanying utterances, though, were varied. I heard everything from "Please no" (Maggie), to "Jesus Christ" (Wallace), to "Stop it or die" (I'm assuming it's obvious).

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Faces

• I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Cameras

• Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Crime
  • London
  • Cameras

• I think people are wrong to do it, to compare him to your way of wanting to do it. If you're passionate about it, do it and do it your way. It's not always going to be in front of the cameras after a football game - that was the way I did it. Somebody else has a different way, and that's James LeBron, and I know who he is. And I can't get into specifics, but it did upset me that people were calling him out for that because they were just wrong.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Passionate
  • Cameras
  • Football Game

• It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Important
  • Matter
  • Cameras

• I hope that my first appearance at a World Cup will be marked with a positive outcome.

  

  Mario Mandzukic
  • Positive
  • Outcome
  • World Cup

• Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Hockey
  • Played
  • Don't Believe

• When you look at the standings, it's all jumbled up. There's still plenty of games. But you don't want to give up games that could come back to haunt you at the end of the year.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Games
  • Haunt
  • Jumbled

• The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form it, and in the end the pupil no longer knows which of the two-mind or hand -was responsible for the work.

  

  Eugen Herrigel
  • Work
  • Knows
  • Guides

• I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

  

  Monica Vitti
  • Cameras
  • Completely
  • Unwilling