Art Kane Quotes
Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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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.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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I want my outfit to match my mood.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
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Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.
