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. Matthew Modine Read Quote
Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again. Matthew Modine Read Quote
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. Matthew Modine Read Quote
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. Matthew Modine Read Quote
The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR. Matthew Modine Read Quote
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. Matthew Modine Read Quote
Stanley didn’t shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of. Matthew Modine Read Quote
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. Matthew Modine Read Quote
Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. Matthew Modine Read Quote
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. Matthew Modine Read Quote
