I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.
You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.
If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.
Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.
Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, 'No, sorry, sorry, no pictures'. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing.
I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
One stroke out of sync may alter the picture, but it doesn't cancel purpose; it may slow you down but doesn't disqualify you.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.
