"The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes."
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"Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel."
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"If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now."
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"Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas."
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"If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph."
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"A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once."
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"The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall."
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"Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen."
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"Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both."
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"The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it."
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"I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me."
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"Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader."
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"...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph."
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"A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph"
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"To collect photographs is to collect the world."
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"The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture."
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"Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph."
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"With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with."
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"A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality."
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"My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph."
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