David Fincher Quotes

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Photography is my passion.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure, a family, a culture if you isolate it from its context. Relationship is everything.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.