Anna Diop Quotes

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

I thought he had been shot.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.

I've always wanted to be behind the camera in some capacity.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our family photos. And I just always loved it.

I've picked up a few scars during games.

I've been in cars that have been shot at.

I always enjoyed being in front of the camera.

I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.

I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something.

When I got on my first set, I watched what the cinematographer was doing, and at that level in film school, the cinematographer has the most control. They're the one looking through the viewfinder, carrying the camera, framing the shots.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

Anything can happen with a razor.

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.