#us

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#bought #i #me #nothing #rolleiflex

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. ↗

— Samuel Ullman

#bows #dust #enthusiasm #fear #give

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#follow #i #my own #never #out

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

#along #athletes #baseball #because #bench

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

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

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film? ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doing #earth #explain #film #get

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#because #become #better #better looking #bit

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. ↗

— Zachary Taylor

#foe #judicious #magnanimity #prostrate #towards