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"The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."

"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."

"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."

"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
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"If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction."

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"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot."

"There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took."

"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you."

"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."

"For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to."

"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition."
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