When I first met Big, we were both at a ‘Bad Boy’ family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn’t that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn’t know that was him. He said he didn’t even know I was an artist on ‘Bad Boy.’
It was a nice experience to shoot on the streets of New York. Tourists are highly respected there and people are highly disciplined and polite.
Whenever you have to do a photo shoot with a woman, there is this weird competition. They need to prove something. They need to play games – maybe unconsciously – but women are so sensitive, and people call me more masculine sometimes.
One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off the car, bikini, heels and all!
My dad can shoot pretty good from outside.
He’s an honest man – you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.
I’ve used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn’t have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it – it’s only clothes.
I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn’t afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
There’s always a certain concern whenever you go and shoot a field piece: that maybe all the elements won’t come together, knowing that you have limited time to tell a story, hoping that you get all the elements you need, hoping the subjects are comfortable.
I’m a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that’s my next level. You’ve got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
The day that I ever become hip… please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
At a shoot, I’m really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can’t see what they’re doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can’t see what they’ve done. I know how to compose myself.
I’d love to jump in a spaceship and shoot myself to the moon, where I’ll paint the word ‘Love.’ So when people step outside before they go to bed and look up to see it, they’ll just dream of love.
One of my mantras is, ‘Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.’ I keep that with me in my back pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair.
Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, ‘They’re casting ‘The Daily Show’ right now – you should submit a tape.’ I remember leaving school to go shoot an audition.
I think each shoot has a different personality.
If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it’s a cookie jar – think Michael Jordan’s last shot as a Bull.
Action to me is something very fun to shoot.
What was really wonderful about the ‘Doubtfire’ shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn’t have to force it.
Instagram is great for us because it’s encouraging people to shoot more stuff. Some of those snappers will become professional, and they may choose to sell their photos through us.
Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven’t done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.
There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the business have is that the worst way to see a city is to shoot there, because you work these long 12, 13 and 14-hour days, and you go home to the hotel, you eat, and you pass out.
Everybody hates to edit my film. Back in the day, we called it film – now, my digital cards. But I shoot an awful lot of pictures. I don’t want to hesitate, because I believe the moment is everything in a picture. So, I take the pictures.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.
I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.
Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you’ve been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.
‘Maya Nadhi’ came soon after ‘Njandu.’ I auditioned twice, before being chosen. The shoot is so much fun and is a big training ground for a debutante like me.
The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
One of my mantras is, ‘Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.’ I keep that with me in my back pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair.
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
There are three things in life I really don’t like: Rice pudding. Social climbers – you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot!
Golf is a game in which you yell ‘Fore!’, shoot six, and write down five.
Sometimes, we have to turn our camera to a mirror to shoot something, and people think, ‘Oh, that’s very stylish.’ Yes it is, but at the same time, we did it because we are shooting in a very small space, and that was our only option.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
Boy, I’d hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they’re talking about. I love film.
I’m so happy with ‘The Blacklist.’ Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.
I might have a different understanding of the term ‘football star.’ If I shoot a few balls after training, it’s perfectly normal that I collect them afterwards.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
I know pretty well in the broad sense what I’m going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it’ll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don’t vote that way.
One day, I came to perform after a film shoot, and I was told that the regular actress couldn’t come, and that my wife will be playing the character of my sister-in-law!
If I want to shoot my daily look, I just put it on Instagram – not on the Web site.
I’ve always thought that I’d make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I’d have to be one of those officers who work in ‘do not shoot’ areas.
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism’s anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
Because I used to play a lot of sport, I’ve always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I’d lie and say, ‘Yeah, I’m going to the gym.’ I literally never did anything.
You find a story – or more importantly, you find some characters – that you want to be around as a filmmaker. The style and how we’re going to shoot it and how we’re going to design it and how it’s all going to feel and look depends on that story. They tell me how I should shoot it.
It’s far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.
It’s to be a person who’s able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
Shooting against greenscreen… my choice of filming is, like, I’d rather shoot on location than shoot on a set, and I’d rather shoot on a set than shoot against greenscreen. You start stripping away the layers of reality, and it becomes a lot less fun to actually film.
