Shay Mitchell Quotes

The best models in the industry are the ones who feel comfortable on the set. If she doesn't feel comfortable, the images won't be beautiful.

It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great.

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Modeling sucks.

I don't know how to pose or anything.

It's actually one of the only things that I do that I don't get frustrated over. Everything else I do - racing, golf, video games - those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.

On 'Cardamom,' I had pretty much total control on all of the musical stuff, but I asked a friend of mine to take the picture for the cover, and I asked a friend of mine to draw the back.

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

On photo shoots I've always had to do that - take direction and whatnot.

I love doing photoshoots; it let's me really show off my personality, flair, and makeup within a photo.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

The only thing I hate are photo shoots. I just hate them. I don't know why I cannot stand them.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.