Matthew Modine Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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