“You have to think of each stage of the movie and how it progresses, get into the state of mind of the character, and then match the camera to that, and keep making it tighter and tighter and crazier and crazier so people don't get bored. You know you cannot do a similar shot that you did at the beginning of the movie at the end.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindEndsStatesCharacterProgressStageShotsCamerasBoredState Of Mind Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayPersonsCharacterShowsFeltForgetCitiesShotsWideFilmmakerAbstractInteriorsExteriorGreat Film Author:Miranda July
“I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.” PeopleHateAliveShotsI HateNineRapperCentsHypeBiggieBest Rapper Author:ASAP Rocky
“I wanna design a video game where you'd have to take care of all the people shot in all the other video games.” PeopleCareGamesDesignShotsTake CareVideo Author:Demetri Martin
“Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.” PeopleWorldShouldLongCountryGovernmentRunningAgeMovingShotsOppositesIncreaseCurrentsEnormousDependentCyclesYieldRetirementLong RunsSocialistRevenueExpectancyWorld LoveLife ExpectancyRetirement AgeSocialist CountriesIndexing Author:Dick Morris
“Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.” PeopleGivingShotsGenerosityMurphy Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.” PeopleMenLittlesLongBeautifulJoyFoundStarsHoursWalksTalkingShotsTownsSouthLovelyBeachGentleLocationResortsSan FranciscoAmiableRapportChattingLong WalksTalking To Him Author:Doris Day
“I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.” PeopleTryingHappensFiveShotsRapRapperKill MeGangsta Author:Tupac Shakur
“It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time in order to get an immersive experience. That's the best way to make art. It's almost like you have to treat it like you're going into a submarine, and Noah Baumbach totally agrees with that. There's not a real other life that happens outside of the movie while it's being shot, which I like.” PeopleWayGivingArtIdeasRealHardHappensOrderLike YouGiving UpShotsTreatsAgreePhonesConnectedBest WayCellsCell PhoneSubmarines Author:Greta Gerwig
“People shoot 2D movies and convert them and I never think they're as good. 3D is really a scientific process of laying out shots and picking rotations.” PeopleThinkingProcessShotsRotation Author:Carl Mazzocone
“Too many people believe in that [Alfred] Hitchcock thing that he only shot exactly the shots he needed for the dialogue he needed and I think that's bullshit, even if that was true for that singular filmmaker.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveNeededShotsDialogueFilmmakerBullshitHitchcock Author:Jason Reitman
“I can't relate to the people who shoot wolves. I'm guessing the person who shot Wolf 06 wouldn't relate much to me either. You let people go out and shoot hundreds of wolves and watch violent movies, and then you're surprised when they go on a rampage shooting other humans. You can't separate violence like that.” PeopleHumansPersonsI CanWatchesViolenceGoes OnShotsViolentRelateShootingGuessingRampageViolent Movies Author:Zoe Helene
“The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.” PeopleGivingYearsShowsArtistOpportunityMillionsThousandShotsPerformances Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!” PeopleWayWellsMadeKnownTeachTakenPhotographyShotsBest WayMediumsIntimateWell KnownPicture Taken Author:Cecil Beaton
“The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.” PeopleYearsTwoHomeNightLeftWalksShotsMy FriendsBallsTwentiesCleanBarsDrunkDrankCouchesBucketsTwenty Two Author:Jon Stewart
“Ratings experts say the best way to get people to watch during sweeps is to leave the audience with a question that won't be answered until the next time the show is on. You know, like Who shot J.R.? I like to think I do this every night - the question is, Is this show still on?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayStillsShowsNightNextWatchesAudienceShotsBest WayExpertsEvery NightNext TimeRating Author:Craig Ferguson
“The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.” PeopleRealRealityRoomsVirtueFiveFourCuttingTeamStandardsShotsBuiltConstantDigitalGet AwayDozenRobotsDomainYardsticks Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“I mean I feel like we've shot all these different movies. Like the first 2 weeks of shooting was all Steve Stills apartment and band rehearsal, you know? And so it was like this tiny little group of people and small set comparatively and it just looked like a Toronto apartment. And then we sort of kept ramping up further and further until now we're here in this giant like craziest set I've ever seen with LCD crazy lights that go....you know?” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanLittlesStillsDifferentLightGroupsWeekCrazyBandShotsTinyShootingGiantsApartmentRehearsalTorontoCraziest Author:Alison Pill
“What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.” PeopleGivingTryingMatterCertainFallSubjectsHugeKissingGunShotsHollywoodHorseOriginalsStrategyGenrePlotDevicesAtomsExhaustedCowboyImageryArrowsSubject MatterHollywood MoviesFalling OffRecycledFolders Author:John Baldessari
“Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for.” PeopleTryingHas BeensJobsFacesFeltLossFindingsShotsSurpriseDisappointmentDivorcePortraitsDisillusionedJob Loss Author:Tina Barney
“For a while I was a completely unknown artist with no fan base and no draw in the clubs. The only people that would give me a shot were the gay clubs. Gay clubs were so open to me coming in and trying things out.” PeopleGivingTryingArtistFansGayDrawsShotsGive MeClubs Author:Kiesza
“I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to do the best I could. We had shot the first five shows before it went on the air. Then, it was this firecracker hit, and people were recognizing me, so it was just nuts. It was overwhelming, insane, wonderful and scary all at the same time. It's really peculiar that people see you on television and then think they have a personal relationship with you. So, they want to touch you, and grab you, and sit down and have lunch with you. It's strange, and you never get used to that.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingFirstsIdeasShowsJobsUsedFiveWonderfulAirEffectsTelevisionStrangeShotsDown AndScaryInsaneNo IdeaLunchOverwhelmingPeculiarNutsRecognizingDo The BestPersonal RelationshipsFirecracker Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
“The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.” PeopleBelieveGovernmentLevelsOur LivesCallingDrugShotsDeeperLatinLatin AmericaLatin AmericanTentaclesCartelsDrug CartelsCalling The Shots Author:William Colby
“People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.” PeopleTearsShots Author:Joan Jett
“So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingYearsMeanTogetherYouthShotsPressesGet BackBabeGet Together Author:Joan Jett
“People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.” PeopleFirstsPersonsRealEndsWholeWantedNightChallengesKnowingMinutesMetsConversationOceanShotsSittingWhole LifeNakedAssBeachSecondsNot KnowingSkinnyBucksPacificPacific OceanLining Up Author:Richard Masur
“What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.” PeopleThinkingMenWayDifferentRealFeltHappenedChangedHe ManArmsGayDiseaseShotsLonelyDiedAidsAtmosphereDesperateDepressingHomophobiaPassed AwayPublic Image Author:Margaret Cho
“If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad, you know. Some people have made a great living off of being on soap operas. But if you want to branch out you have to leave early, otherwise you'll never get the shot.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantMadeForeverShotsBranchesOperaSoapSoap Operas Author:Jackee Harry
“The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's] probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.” PeopleIfsPersonsIdeasHelpingBodyFilmFacesGuyWatchesSonPerspectiveShotsFamiliarGasConcentrationCategoriesCampsInteractionChamberConcentration CampGas Chambers Author:Bun B
“People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time. We should apologize for it. We should make up for it. My shareholders paid for it. No customer was hurt, which is critical to me. But I hurt my shareholders, and I wish I hadn't.” PeopleNeedsShouldWishHurtMistakeShotsPaidCriticalCustomersMaking MistakesHungApologizingShareholders Author:Jamie Dimon
“You know it has all the kind of fun stuff. It has the countermeasures - we always talk about the countermeasures because people are like, "What the heck is countermeasures?" You know if I shot a missile at it, flares would pop out of those holes and stop the missile from hitting it.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindFunStuffShotsPopsHolesHittingMissilesFlareFun Stuff Author:Zack Snyder
“I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.” PeopleGuyShots Author:Ice Cube
“I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".” PeopleKnowsMenSaidRememberPowerfulTearsSceneShotsLunchRemember When Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.” PeopleGivingMindDifficultLosesShotsWrapsNothing To Lose Author:Robert Moss
“I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and people having shot guns in the driveway, looking for me or announcing that I've already died before lectures and sending it through newspaper - sending it to newspaper columns they send my mother and so on. There's a real night side to my particular calling, which is try to bear witness to love and truth.” PeopleTryingRealMotherNightCoursesSidesWifeParticularBearsCallingGunShotsDiedThreatMy WifeNewspapersWitnessFallenMaskLecturesColumnsShowing UpTruth And LoveAnnouncingDrivewayBlackouts Author:Cornel West
“It is definitely a hard show [True Blood] to jump into the middle of, but luckily we have things like HBO Go now. It's not like you've missed it and now you're stuck. And I think once guys give it a shot - and you'll be able to speak to this better than I will - there's a lot of stuff that can be interesting to guys. There's a lot of action. Plenty of people are getting their heads chopped off.” PeopleThinkingGivingHardShowsAbleActionGuySpeakStuffInterestingBloodMiddleLike YouShotsStuckPlentyHbo Author:Deborah Ann Woll
“When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and the spectacle of that fantasy, people were willing to give it a shot. And when they watched the first one, the characters drew them in and they started understanding the story. And then, all of a sudden, they were The Lord of the Rings fans, even if they never read Tolkien.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsCharacterStoriesUnderstandingLordFantasyFansWillingShotsRingsPeterScopeFellowshipFellowship Of The RingTrilogies Author:Duncan Jones
“I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money.” PeopleThinkingYearsCrazyTasteShotsYears AgoVodkaBartender Author:Ian MacKaye
“Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover.” PeopleTodayShotsGet AwayUndercover Author:Joe Arpaio
“When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.” PeopleWritingHeartLongTwoWarFightingGamesDestinyWallBattleShotsVoteFinalsBritishDecadesCivil WarHistorianCrownsUnnecessaryHollowJohnsonPoorestCameronReferendumsEton Author:Brian Reade
“Some people never know that they happen, some people never know that they had a shot to know whatever it is their dream is because they were in the wrong mental spot. But if you believe in God, or you believe in some higher power, or something... because if you think about it, our brains are only meant to fathom what we see.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBelieveDreamHappensBrainHigherShotsSpotsBelieve In GodIf You BelieveHigher PowerFathom Author:Ryan Montgomery
“You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.” PeopleIfsWantKindSpeakBlackDifferencesForgetKingsShotsClaimsRevolutionaryBlack PeopleLutherNewtonWardrobeJordan Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.” PeopleFirstsThreeMonthsBecomingShotsFirst TimeNonsenseThree MonthsMorphine Author:William S. Burroughs
“I enjoy that atmosphere, because you play golf all the time but you don't get to play in front of this many people and feel the energy of the crowd.You hit a bad shot, they boo; you hit a good shot, they cheer you. It's awesome. So I love it.” PeopleFeelsPlayEnergyEnjoyFrontsShotsGolfCrowdsAtmosphereCheer Author:Stephen Curry
“We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.” PeopleIfsStatesGovernmentWould BeUnitedUnited StatesImagineGroupsMilitaryBuildingShotsScaredScaryFlyingOfficialsInjuredTurkishDiscountsArtillery Author:Barack Obama
“I actually didn't even think about "Josie and the Pussycats" . I was like, "Oh yeah we kind of took some shots at MTV," but I think everyone had a good sense of humor about it. People either got that movie completely, or completely missed it and dumped all over it.” PeopleThinkingKindShotsYeahOver ItSense Of HumorGood SenseMtvDumpedGood Sense Of HumorJosie Author:Deborah Kaplan
“The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police and getting shot by themselves. People automatically associate that with blackness because of the news.” PeopleMatterKidsSidesBlackSubjectsDrugNewsShotsPoliceAssociatesSubject MatterDealerBlacknessDrug Dealers Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.” PeopleYearsMy OwnKnownOpinionHairOne DayClothesModelsShotsBritishMuseumsChloeVogue Author:Nan Goldin
“I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsLongStoriesArtistShotsYeahPlacementLong Story Author:PJ Harvey
“I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.” PeopleWantYearsShowsBodyWould BeSchoolGuyThreePartyMissingTvsWasteHigh SchoolShotsEcstasyLoserQuartersWasting TimeThree YearsTv ShowsCousinMy CousinMissing OutTutorKegsSchool Experience Author:Jessica Alba