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Matthew Modine

"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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"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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"I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money."

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"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people."

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"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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"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 never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."

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"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."

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"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."

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"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."

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"We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me."

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"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."

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