Roy Stryker famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.
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I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.
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Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it.
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Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word.
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There are times when you simply have to pose your model. The difference is in the kind of posing. It can be honest and dishonest, interesting and as wooden as a cigar store Indian.
-- Roy Stryker
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When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.
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Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you dont choose the right thing to wear underneath!
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The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.
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