Quotes About Career

All I wanted to do was to perform my music, so I never really thought about photo shoots or music video shoots or interviews. You can't anticipate those things - you just can't plan this as a job.

After leaving college I got a job as a photo editor. Then, looking through my mum's photo archive inspired me to take it seriously.

Hollywood is crazy because if you're working, you're constantly working. There's all sorts of scheduling and stuff, and maybe you have a day off, but you don't have the whole day. You've got a photo shoot or whatever.

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

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.

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

I was interested in photography from my college days and wanted to become a cinematographer.

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.