"Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story."
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"Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing."
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"There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera."
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"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."
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"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
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"Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera."
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"I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?"
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"I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance."
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"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."
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"I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting."
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"I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it."
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"I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera."
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"I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it."
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"The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue."
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"I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera."
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"When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?"
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"My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one."
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"You don't make a photograph just with a camera"
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"If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story."
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"There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did."
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