Saoirse Ronan Quotes

Maybe my songs are my partner. How 'bout that? Yeah, the biggest relationship I have is with my songs.

Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I've never shared.

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

I do make films for personal reasons.

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

I've hidden behind the camera my whole life because I much, much, much prefer shooting. Being behind the camera is my safe space, and it's my creative space, too.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

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.

Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.