Shooting famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.
-- Irving Azoff -
The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.
-- James MacArthur -
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.
-- Jay Maisel -
If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
-- Jay Maisel -
Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.
-- Jay Maisel -
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.
-- Jay Maisel -
You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
-- Jay Maisel -
Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.
-- Jay Maisel -
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.
-- Jay Maisel -
When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.
-- Jay Roach -
Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.
-- Jim Butcher -
The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.
-- Joan Chen -
I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.
-- Joe McNally -
Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed.
-- John Landis -
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
-- John Malkovich -
We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.
-- John Whisenant -
I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.
-- Johnny Weissmuller -
I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you’ve got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.
-- Jon Ronson -
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.
-- Jonathan Demme -
You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.
-- Jose Padilha -
I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.
-- Josh Hartnett -
You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.
-- Josh Sugarmann -
Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.
-- Julian Sands -
It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.
-- Julie Walters -
There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.
-- Justin Timberlake -
I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.
-- Kelly Clarkson -
A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.
-- Ken Adam -
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.
-- Ken Burns -
I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.
-- Kevin Pietersen -
I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.
-- Kiefer Sutherland -
I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?
-- Kobe Bryant -
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas -
To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
-- Larry Elder -
It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release stress.
-- Laurie Holden -
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.
-- Lee Friedlander -
My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.
-- Leonard Nimoy -
I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much,
-- Linda Ronstadt -
After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.
-- Luc Besson -
I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.
-- Lucy Griffiths -
I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.
-- Luke Benward -
If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.
-- Marcia Gay Harden -
I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.
-- Mark Wahlberg -
The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.
-- Martin Parr -
I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
-- Martin Parr -
Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
-- Martin Scorsese -
I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
-- Martin Scorsese -
You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.
-- Matthew Emmons -
The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.
-- Matthew Lewis -
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
-- Matthew McConaughey -
He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
-- Melissa de la Cruz -
I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.
-- Michael Haneke -
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
-- Michelangelo Antonioni -
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
If they found a way to make shooting in 240p expensive, it would be trendy.
-- Mike D -
The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.
-- Mike Tyson -
As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.
-- Misha Collins -
Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.
-- Nick Harkaway -
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
-- Nigel Barker -
Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.
-- Nigel Dennis -
I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times
-- Niki de Saint Phalle -
We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.
-- Norm Stewart -
The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
-- Patrick J. Adams -
The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
-- Paul Hirsch -
That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
-- Peter Dinklage -
Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.
-- Peter Dobereiner -
You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.
-- Peter Malam Brothers -
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies -
I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.
-- Picabo Street -
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
-- Preston Sturges -
I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
-- Rachael Harris -
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
-- Ralph Allen -
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
-- Randy Travis -
It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
-- Richard Attenborough -
I don't really like to watch myself [in movie] very much, even afterwards. I kind of feel that when I've finished shooting, that's my job done, really. It's not my business what happens to it next. I just do what I do and that's what I love: doing it.
-- Richard Coyle -
When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.
-- Richard D. Zanuck -
I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.
-- Richard Schiff -
Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.
-- Ridley Scott -
There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.
-- Robert Heinecken -
Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.
-- Roberto Benigni -
An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. Thats 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.
-- Russell Pearce -
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
-- Sam Mendes -
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
-- Sam Mendes -
I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.
-- Sam Watkins -
I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.
-- Samuel L. Jackson -
I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.
-- Sanaa Lathan -
I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months shooting this season and it was very secretive, very sexy, a lot of blood and fangs.
-- Scott Foley -
Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
-- Sean Penn -
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
-- Seth Gordon -
You never know what a movie is going to look like when you're shooting it and you just hope it's going to look like it's supposed to be.
-- Sophia Bush -
Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.
-- Stephen Daldry -
We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.
-- Steve Burns -
We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
-- Steve Irwin -
Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.
-- Steven Hall
