Quotes About Perspective

We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

These people dissing Dr. Dre, they need to get off their cell phones for about a week and come back to reality. They have no idea. Do what he did and then talk to me.

When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'

In the past, there were many times when I thought, 'This photo doesn't look good with a low angle, or this part bothers me.'

A photo is a creation.

I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.

I mean, in all fairness, in the grand scheme of things, if the greatest inconvenience of my life is that sometimes people want a photo or a chat, then that's extraordinarily lucky. It really bothers me when actors complain about it.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

To photograph is to confer importance.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.

When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.