Carol Guzy Quotes

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

I always carry my camera with me.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.

It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.

Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

When I was studying photography, I became interested in conflict photojournalism, and that got me interested in lighting. Then I realized there was this amazing thing called cinematography where you could kind of tell more complete stories photographing for film. So I ended up going to AFI grad school for that.

I'm a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.