"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."

Age, Father, Light, Value

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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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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

Eric Bentley, English Critic

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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

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"The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR."

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"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."

Hope

"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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"It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them."

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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."

Light

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Negative