Steven Klein Quotes

I love film - it's like painting.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something innate in my music where it partners well with images.

There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?'

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

One thing I learnt was that you don't have to spend all day shooting: you can get it done in half an hour if you're that talented as a cameraman.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

I don't believe in one slow panning-shot to show a place. It should unfurl in the story itself.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try. Every now and again I get scared. And that's not really how I operate in songwriting or as Sia the artist, the singer. I don't operate from a place of fear. But this is such a new area for me. I still have some insecurity. So, like, once a week I get washed from the top of my skull down to my toes with this vomitous feeling of fear. I think, "Just don't do it. You don't have to do it. You're already a singer and a songwriter. Really, you don't have to make a movie.".