Lenses Quotes - Page 19

• The lens is a tyranny.

  David Hockney

  Tyranny

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• Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Vision, Transformation

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, University of Chicago Press

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• When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

  Gary Zukav

  Generosity, Forgiving, Looks

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.

  Ray Winstone

  Missing, Might, Genius

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

  Dean Cavanagh

  Ballet, Erotic, Mind

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• It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

  Roelof Botha

  Wall, Rushing, Long

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• 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."

  Jeff Vespa

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Sorry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Simon Helberg

  Dream, Play, Profound

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Michael Seresin

  Beautiful, Years, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Political, Understanding, Events

  Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (2013). “Fascism versus Capitalism”, p.144, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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.

  Dallas Campbell

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Zoe Bell

  Years, Knowing, Understanding

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Colin Hanks

  Photography, Teenager, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Color, Events

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• 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.

  Arthur Koestler

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• 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.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cutting, Reality, Fire

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

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Unexpected, Surprise

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

  Philippe Halsman

  Lying, Portraiture, Photographer

  Philippe Halsman (1972). “Halsman sight and insight”

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• When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you're trying to think about the person you're acting with and you've got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is. It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God's punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God's punishments.

  Bill Paxton

  Bible, Men, Thinking

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• We were in the middle of a sandbar in the middle of the ocean with no one around, and still someone was following me from New York, and was hiding in some bushes like a mile away with a long lens, so he still got pictures. It was really an eye opener to how you really have to be careful about being followed everywhere. I was trying to go to the most remote place in the world, I was out on a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, and they still found me. It was definitely a very new experience.

  Ronda Rousey

  New York, Ocean, Eye

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

  Tori Amos

  Listening, Viewpoints, Alive

  "Tori Amos Interview by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's just something about getting up, putting it out there, and getting this exchange of energy. Whether your audience is a camera lens, or live theater, or whatever it is, just putting that out there and getting it back is just an honor.

  Lauren Bowles

  Honor, Cameras, Energy

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• I really love it, I love working with directors that are very collaborative and allow me input. I've done over 75 films, it's just like you're an apprentice. You learn so much about camerawork, lenses, and I'm always talking about DPs and directors and they always give me lists. I think pretty soon, I'll be ready to move away from being in front of the camera.

  John Leguizamo

  Moving, Thinking, Talking

  "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

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• The good news is we are seeing an incredible surge in non-animal technologies in laboratories. With researchers using stem cells, visually impaired people may one day have new corneas and lenses grown from their own cells. That is likely to be a more effective and cheaper approach than using animals.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Technology, Cells

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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