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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I don't really know how to work a camera.
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I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.
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Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.
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I will never get tired of making chocolate chip cookies. Never.
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When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
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After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.
