Tom Waits Quotes

I think each shoot has a different personality.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.