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In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed
I loved, in 'Starman', the use of anamorphic lenses, the creation of blue light, and Carpenter's use of the widescreen format.
When I go on set, it's very important, the lenses I choose, what I choose to frame or not frame and that's how I make my movies.
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.
When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.
Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.
Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
I batted with contact lenses in the IPL while playing for Delhi Daredevils. I wasn't picking the ball early. So I went back to the glasses.
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.
When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.
We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.
We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.
I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.
Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.
When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.
When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.
Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.
My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.
The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.
Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.