Douglas Sirk Quotes

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

My close-up was magnificent!

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

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

It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.

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.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

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.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

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.

I like to know where the camera is.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

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

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.

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.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

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

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.