Matthew Modine

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

#beautiful #camera #composition #face #i

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#capable #humanity #people #shy #stanley

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR. ↗

— Matthew Modine

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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

#find #image #just #photographs #portrait

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

#accessible #africa #educate #magazines #media

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#frank #over #same #think #used

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

#bring #director #get #hope #how