Tom Anderson Quotes

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.

DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.

For low light, all the light rays participate. We're using all the light coming through a large aperture to make a picture with a large depth of field - totally impossible with a conventional camera.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

My close-up was magnificent!

I like to know where the camera is.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

If your pictures are not good enough, it’s because you are not close enough.

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.