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“There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.”

Years Country Nations Highest Years Ago Suicide Rate Glasses Tricks Japan Thick Suicidal Lenses

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses.”

Thinking Hard Kids Wanted Found Shots Meetings Stores Realistic Toys Lenses Spy Roger Thrillers Warehouse

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.”

Years Littles Mother Cutting Type Computer Standards Picks My Friends Cameras Magazines Shooting Print Punk Lenses Mock Paragraph Manuals Canon Skateboarding Macintosh Layout Fonts Xerox Zines

Author:Jeff Vespa

“So I tried to get my shot with a 50mm and I did it - this is when we're shooting film, not digital. The guy that hired me looked through the pictures and was like, "Oh, this is pretty good. You did a good job." And I was like, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I only had a 50mm. My girlfriend rented the wrong lens..." and he stopped looking at the pictures and he looked up at me and he said, "You shot this with a 50mm? You're hired."”

Said Jobs Film Guy Shots Yeah Sorry Shooting Girlfriend Digital I'm Sorry Good Job Lenses My Girlfriend

Author:Jeff Vespa

“We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. Maybe we don't all have that dream. I don't know. Getting to role play or step back to a different moment in time and see things through a different lens is something that resonated with me, for sure. We don't get to do that, generally, but when the right neurological disorder lines up with the right unstable woman, that moment presents itself. Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.”

“Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful.”

“I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.”

Way Needs Grew Easier Grew Up Function Crew Lenses Operators Cinematographers Cameraman

Author:David Douglas

“I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.”

Thinking Real Universe Actors Secret Like You Directors Theater Cameras Surface Real Life Invisible Fascinating Exploring Lenses Microscopes Camera Lenses

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.”

“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous....You know I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the beach through long lens. I never dreamt it would impact my daughter's life negatively, which at times it has. It would be churlish to say there's nothing good about being famous; to have a total stranger walk up to you as you're walking around Safeways, and say a number of nice things that they might say about your work.”

Thinking Knows Long Might Would Be Wanted Walks Interesting Numbers Nice Walking Fame Daughter Impact Stranger Beach My Daughter Lenses Up To You Nice Things Being Famous Rakes

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.”

Soul Church Leader Members Missions Focused Saving Lenses Council Saving Souls

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“Most people don't wear glasses in the U.S., and we're not conditioned to finding men and women who wear glasses sexy. If you need your glasses to see, find a good optometrist who can outfit you with a great frame, thin lenses, and a high-quality anti-reflective coating.”

People Ifs Men Needs Quality Findings Men And Women Glasses Sexy Lenses High Quality

Author:Amy Webb

“Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'”

Knows Firsts Looks I Can Know How Weak Assuming Contact Vain Glances Lenses Showing Off Surf Swans Spectacles Piglet Contact Lenses

Author:Greg Proops

“Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.”

Ends Political Understanding Economic Events Theory Libertarianism Compelling Lenses

Book:Fascism versus Capitalism

Source: Fascism versus Capitalism

“People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.”

People Thinking World Looks Answers Lenses Right Answers

Author:Dallas Campbell

“I'm completely at ease on a set. I'm pretty comfortable most places, but hitting the mark and knowing set etiquette and understanding cameras and lenses are second nature. It's a language I've spoken for years.”

Years Language Understanding Knowing Comfortable Mark Cameras Ease Hitting Lenses Etiquette

Author:Zoe Bell

“I shoot with a few different camera's. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens. I like to travel light so I can have it with me most of the time. I really try and document all the places we travel to.”

Trying I Can Different Light Beautiful Cameras Documents Lenses Sony Travel Light Leica

Author:Eliot Lewis

“Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.”

Spirituality Blessing Commandments Lenses Invitations Commandments Of God

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.”

Author:Kathy Ireland

“I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.”

Thinking World Years Past Thousand Ideology Thousand Years Lenses Over The Past Poisonous

Author:Terence McKenna

“I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.”

People Thinking World Feels Firsts Persons I Can Home Kids Wife Honest Mets Grateful Ass Producers Balanced Storyteller Lenses Going Home Honest Person Brutally Honest

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence of an environment that you view as a theatrical dramatic experience is - you don't just have the X-Y axis, you have the Z and that makes a difference. You still have the framing, you still use lenses, so most of the cinematic rules and languages still apply but I think it's a different existence.”

Thinking Should Stills Different Use Form Used Language Differences Views Existence Environment Artistic Dramatic Making A Difference Impress Lenses Theatrical Cinematic Axes Gimmicks Framing

Author:Ang Lee

“I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?”

Sometimes Missing Goes On Woods Contact Wander Weekend Lenses Barefoot Reminiscing Contact Lenses

Author:Peter Facinelli

“I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.”

Used Grew Photography Grew Up Cameras Backgrounds Teenager Visuals Department Lenses Bros Warner Bros

Author:Colin Hanks

“Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future.”

Different Past Our Lives Events Color Stones Series Our Past Lenses Kaleidoscope

Author:Bill Crawford

“The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made dream - the two, of course, being intimately connected and interacting with each other.”

Men Mind Made Two Dream Artist Courses Expression Connected Mediums Lenses Interacting

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.”

Reality Cities Fire Cutting Ordinary Strikes Heavenly Lenses Depraved Lasers

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!”

Prove Photography Surprise Unexpected Faculty Lenses Surrealism

Author:Salvador Dali

“There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.”

Littles Romance Lying Bits Little Bit Cameras Lenses Camera Lenses Vaseline

Author:Richard Jeni

“I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.”

Thinking Looks Eye Vision Taken Fronts Position Granted Lenses Jerk Taken For Granted

Book:Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

“The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.”

Wells Realizing Objects Photographer Casts Cinema Paradox Lenses Luminous Duration

Author:Andre Bazin

“Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .”

Lying Difficulty Photographer Surface Objectives Lenses Portraiture

Book:Halsman sight and insight

Source: Halsman sight and insight

“Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer... I often see things after the fact. So there’s a revelatory quality. And this definitely includes a sense of playfulness, because you’re not sure what the consequences are going to be.”

Facts Eye Quality Seeing Computer Photography Consequence Not Sure Solitary Lenses Playfulness Lag

Author:Christian Marclay

“Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.”

Feels Looks Design Understood Boards Apples Users Lenses User Experience Industrial Design

Author:John Sculley

“A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.”

Hands Eye Care Ready Limits Sight Cameras Indifferent Cult Unlimited Lenses Reproduction Isms

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“We always point the lens both outward and inward.”

Author:Paul Caponigro

“I would say my sex drive is weaker than most. However, my lens has a permanent erection.”

Sex Permanent Lenses Sex Drive

Author:Nobuyoshi Araki

“To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul - it is enough for me to know that I have something that will make pictures and that it is in working order.”

Knows I Can Soul Enough Use Order Cameras My Soul Lenses

Book:Natives of the Far North: Alaska's Vanishing Culture in the Eye of Edward Sheriff Curtis

Source: Natives of the Far North: Alaska's Vanishing Culture in the Eye of Edward Sheriff Curtis

“My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.”

Two Happens Fall Splits Grandfather Lenses Cousin My Grandfather Falling Off

Author:Martine Franck

“The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.”

Mean Ideas Facts Reality Eye Lying Influence Creation Behavior Photography Importance Permit Lenses Distortion

Author:Gisele Freund

“We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual alphabet... It's what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television. All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera. I'm saying there are many, many other ways to produce photographic imagery, and I would imagine that a lot of them have yet to be explored.”

Way Running Realizing Half Imagine Produce Television Cameras Magazines Visuals Imagine That Lenses Imagery Alphabet Billboards Syntax

Author:Adam Fuss

“I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.”

People Needs Use Hate I Hate Lenses Paparazzi Complicity

Author:Graciela Iturbide

“So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The interesting thing is to make use of this history, not merely to be absorbed into it. For me, landscape photographs begin as the artifacts of personal moments. They get interesting when they become cultural commentary.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Moments Use Interesting Land Photograph Landscape Lenses Interesting Things Commentary Artifacts

Author:Mark Klett

“The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.”

Fall Lost Perfect Figures Elements Cameras Naked Landscape Exposed Lenses Gardener Eden

Author:Justine Kurland

“... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.”

Reality Courses Ability Computer Cameras Fake Realism Lenses Camera Lenses Computer Graphics

Author:Lev Manovich

“Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'd like all of those things, but I don't need them. Because what I get from photographing is learning. I have spent my life learning by looking through a lens.”

Want Needs Fame Photography Admiration Lenses Life Learning

Author:Rondal Partridge

“It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.”

May Sometimes Reality Add Various Length Desirable Lenses Deliberate Distortion Accentuate

Author:Arthur Rothstein

“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.”

Greater Range Intensity Lenses Aperture

Book:Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967

Source: Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967

“Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.”

People Three Dark Rooms Red Argument Photograph Dues Burning Manipulation Print Burned Lenses Slap Filters Dark Room Andrea Cartier Henri Cartier Bresson

Author:Joel Sternfeld

“I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.”

Firsts Young Chance Wife Building Photography First Time Cameras My Wife Paris Architect Lenses

Author:Sebastiao Salgado