Complicated Quote by John Knoll

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

— Sam Abell

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

— Gemma Chan

You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary…

— Alec Soth

Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have shot in nature, but…

— Leonard Nimoy

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

— Mary Ellen Mark

These days, you'd probably shoot it in the daylight and manipulate it in the post. That's [how] most people would do it. [I did…

— Janusz Kaminski

I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like…

— Mark Waters

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

— Stanley Clarke

When you move handheld, and the director of photography has the courage to shoot with no lights, the set becomes a space of creativity…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

— Miriam Hopkins

I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.

— Tom Gruber