Taylor Steele Quotes

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

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

I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

I think each shoot has a different personality.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

To photograph is to confer importance.

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.