Pictures Quotes

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

If somebody's looking at pictures of naked people and you go, 'Oh I don't want to see that,' you're lying. Cause naked people are always interesting. Always. Whether they're beautiful, or naked or 500 pounds.

I have a fat head - I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

Let's make some funny pictures.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!