Eve Arnold Quotes

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

I felt when I was gambling that the house always wins, and it was always like, how can I become the house? But when you're a band, you are the house because you can write the songs, you can wear your own clothes, you can pick where your show is. I can choose my own cards, basically.

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really.

As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at least nobody can tell me what to do. I can write what I want. I might not sell it, but at least I'm in control.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)