Wentworth Miller
Actor
"Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time."
Shooting quotes
Shooting
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Clint Eastwood
Actor, Director, Producer
"Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot."
Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director, Screenwriter
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
Veronica Roth
Author
"You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?' 'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.' He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks."
Lee Friedlander
Photographer
"It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you."
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"See, I don't want brothers shooting. I want them talking."
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"Murders came with smiles, shooting people was no big deal for us Goodfellas."
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"To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting."
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"Shooting is all about confidence."
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"How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?"
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"I get very close to people when I'm shooting them."
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"What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in.""
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"Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer."
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"If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up."
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"Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot."
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"Shooting is my principal pastime."
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"I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another."
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"I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?"
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"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
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"I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80."
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"Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks."
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"War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you."
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"I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone."
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"I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle."
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"The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page."
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