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"I see no reason for recording the obvious."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."
"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."
"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."
"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."
"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."
"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately."
"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."
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