Quotes About Capture

You press the button, we do the rest.

Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.

But oh — time has become such a torture, a slow torture. One tries to capture a piece of time that lies ahead and is full of light . . . but thinking about that just makes this awful black time even blacker.

Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado.

And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him

L'essenziale è spesso invisibile; è solo il cuore, e non l'occhio, a poterlo cogliere, ma la macchina fotografica a volte sfiora tracce di quella sostanza.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I'll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.

When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.

In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.

Every network wants to capture new viewers, but that's up to the networks.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.

I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.