Quotes About Influence

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.

We tend to crib about kids being addicted to phones all the time, but the truth is that it is the parents who are the root cause of such behavior, because they are usually the original addicts.

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'

My roommate and best friend from college had the picture of 'Frances Ha' as her Facebook cover photo. That movie meant a lot to us.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

Mourinho knows me! He sat in my lap as a little boy, and wanted his photograph taken with me. I knew his father and so I bounced little Jose on my knee. He always looked up to me.

I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

I am not against cricket, but it is dominating this country. All other games are finished, because the media shows cricket 24 hours a day, the papers are full of cricketers' photographs.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.