Lenses Quotes

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

I would like immortality.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

The best zoom lens is your legs.

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem.

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

The lens is a tyranny.

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.