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My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.
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I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.
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I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.
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There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
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For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.
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We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
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Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.
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Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
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So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.
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They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.
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I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.
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Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
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