Lens Quotes - page 3

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. (Gretchen Rubin)
Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world. View quote
Debbie Ford
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation. View quote
David Nicholls
The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age. View quote
Jennifer Egan
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability. View quote
Klaus Schwab
I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life. View quote
Sebastiao Salgado
I loved making films. There was something about that lens that I adored, and it adored me back. So we were a great combination. View quote
Elizabeth Scott
Obama shared in the more philosophical part of the discussion as vigorously as he did in the more context-oriented part .... The impression you report, of impatience with speculative exploration, is false. It does justice neither to him nor to me to represent these conversations under the lens of philistine activist against starry-eyed theoretician. He was always interested in ideas, big and small. View quote
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium. View quote
Anita Sarkeesian
Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. View quote
Elliott Erwitt
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. (Alan Dundes)
If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. View quote
Alison Jackson
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. View quote
David Bailey
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. View quote
Ernst Haas
I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope. View quote
Gordon Gee
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens. View quote
Gore Verbinski
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember. View quote
Graydon Carter
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting. View quote
Gavin Hood
Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle. View quote
Hanneli Mustaparta
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it. View quote
Joe McNally
Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach. (Josh Fox)
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. View quote
Julia Margaret Cameron
I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens. View quote
Julian Ovenden
The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's happening with the immigration debate. While that's an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there's also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that's never been told. View quote
Ken Salazar
All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one. View quote
Karen Traviss