Words matter. These are the best Shutter Quotes from famous people such as Mary Schmich, Yousuf Karsh, Ben Eine, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jerzy Kosinski, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game’s over.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you’d have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.
I don’t have a bad relationship. I’m 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is… you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that’s a life.
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
I live on the ground floor, so I have these lacy curtains during the day and then as soon as it gets dark, I’m like, ‘Blackout blinds! Shutters!’ I like being more private.
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.
God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.
We are splintering what was the ‘camera’ and its functionality – lens, sensors, and processing – into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.
Our films appear to have become realistic once again. ‘Thondimuthalum Driskakshiyum’ is a fine example. I am glad that I could also contribute to this phase of Malayalam cinema with ‘Shutter.’
The film has been titled ‘Uncle,’ and will revolve around a family, like ‘Shutter.’ The social and political milieu of Kerala is of much importance in the movie and it’s about an unusual situation a family is made to face.
Movies used to be called the ‘flicks’ because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second – which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter – was really badly flickering.
It was Ranjith who inspired me to be a film maker. And ever since I began the shoot, he is keeping a track of the progress. In fact, he knows the script of ‘Shutter’ better than me.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin’s Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
Johns will give me a good critique of my work. Before starting my film ‘Shutter’ I gave the script to Johns for his opinion.
The heavy hand of government and its rules are causing family businesses to shutter their doors.
Photographs aren’t accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
