Quotes About Photography

My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

It's embarrassing standing in front of the camera and getting your picture taken.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

In the scheme of things, I'm just a guy who gets my picture taken.

I hate having my photograph taken.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

I love taking pictures. I'm always the one with the camera!

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

My dad bought me a camera, and I started taking it everywhere with me. I realised how much I was enjoying the whole process - from taking the images to editing them and developing them - and it soon became a complete passion.

But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.

I love taking advantage of red carpets.

I am quite shy really, but I always try to make time to talk to people and have pictures taken.

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.

I see myself as a normal guy - until I see myself in photos; then, 'Oh, I'm tall.'

Because of the way I am built I photograph taller than I actually am; it's an optical illusion. The way you're naturally built is not something you can fake - you either photograph taller or you don't.

I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt.