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Matthew Modine
American
Actor
Born:
Mar 22
,
1959
Best
Light
Me
People
Photography
You
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We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
Matthew Modine
Life
Best
Good
Great
Me
You
Try
Father
Husband
Important
Lover
Father's Day
Know
Well
Very
Should
Aspire
Multitude
Things
Good Husband
I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.
Matthew Modine
Photography
Digital
Think
Way
Romantic
Film
Sympathetic
For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.
Matthew Modine
Photography
Digital
Example
Collateral
Kind
Kinds
Some
Some Things
Raw
For Example
Itself
Very
Michael
Stories
Lend
Lends
Themselves
Certain
Film
Things
I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.
Matthew Modine
Money
Worth
Thought
Kind
Silly
Could
Always
So Much Money
Much
Baseball
Card
I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.
Matthew Modine
Me
Nothing
Bought
Stuff
Because
Shot
Using
Satisfying
I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
Matthew Modine
Path
Own
Rich
Out
Follow
My Own
Never
Famous
Wanted
Set
I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.
Matthew Modine
Too
Robert
Couple
Times
Worked
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
Me
Age
Light
Father
Value
Young
Composition
Learned
Very
Essential
Essential Elements
Taught
Young Age
Paint
Elements
Watercolors
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
Light
Face
Top
Composition
About
Open
Put
Camera
Up
Thing
The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.
Matthew Modine
Experience
Camera
Very
Than
Different
Using
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
You
Discipline
Took
Release
Find
Photographs
Someone
Take
Just
Portrait
Image
Shutter
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
News
People
States
Able
Magazines
Accessible
Educate
Up
Africa
Where
News Media
Newspapers
Media
United
United States
Set
Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.
Matthew Modine
Think
Frank
Over
Same
Again
Used
Actor
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
Hope
Best
You
Director
Out
Push
Involved
Knows
Understand
How
Pray
Get
Same
Sensibility
Who
Bring
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