My father taught me to pain... by Matthew Modine, an American Actor

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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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Name: Matthew Modine

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Mar 22, 1959

Profession: Actor

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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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