Brassaï Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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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 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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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 didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.
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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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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
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You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
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My mother taught me to read.
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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.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.
