Alberto Korda Quotes
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
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When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
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Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.
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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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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.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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I'll forget what day it is sometimes. I have to look in my calendar every once in a while.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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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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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
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No book of mine is complete without a dog.
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There's nothing sexy about Orange County.
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Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
