John Hyams famous quotes

Most of my training I do in between movies, and even if I wasn't an actor I'd be doing it. I started studying martial arts when I was 14, and it's something I still do just to keep sane and feel good about myself.
-- John Hyams

#Art #Feel Good #Training

[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic experience. And when you're doing fiction you're trying to do the opposite thing you're trying to take this very artificial experience this very artificial experience and make it feel real and visceral.
-- John Hyams

#Real #Opposites #Class

I've always been a big proponent of point of view in cinema. Not necessarily that the point of view has to be subjective, but that in all great films the point of view has been taken into account and established.
-- John Hyams

#Taken #Views #Cinema

I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.
-- John Hyams

#Opportunity #Thinking #Ideas

I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.
-- John Hyams

#Editing #Editors #Long

There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.
-- John Hyams

#World #Saving #Littles

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.
-- John Hyams

#Forever #Sound #May

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!