Gisele Bundchen Quotes

I find that on most films it's very difficult to have a backlit movie in an exterior.

Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.

People who are new to photography always pull their subjects directly into the sun, which is the most unflattering light in the world.

The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.

A room is not a room without natural light.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

I like having a lot of sunlight because it helps me wake up. And I don't get depressed in winter.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

Available light is any damn light that is available!

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

A good actor knows exactly what the camera wants, what the sound wants, where to find the light and how to tell a good through line and journey.

I was glamorous because of magicians like George Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all those other great cinematographers. I trusted those men and the other experts who made us beautiful. The rest of it I didn't give a damn about. I didn't fuss about my clothes, my lighting, or anything else, but, believe me, some of them did.

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.