"To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print."
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"The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."
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"Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer."
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"To photograph is to confer importance."
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"The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world."
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"Photography is a form of time travel."
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"When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together?"
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"If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions."
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"I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree."
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"Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?"
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"I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything."
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"The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake up in the morning and have a choice between doing the laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk. You'd hate to die and realize you had spent your last day doing the laundry."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?"
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"There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning."
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"Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real."
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"This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture."
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"Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression."
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"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"
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"A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative."
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