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It was the baseball fantasy of...

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 54 quotes

If you take 2001: A Space Odys...

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

For example, Michael Mann's fi...

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 54 quotes

Think of Frank Capra and Prest...

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

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

I've worked with Robert Altman...

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

You hope and pray that you'll ...

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 54 quotes

We should all aspire in life t...

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 54 quotes

Think of Frank Capra and Prest...

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

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

They don't have the news media...

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 54 quotes

There's a famous story about H...

There's a famous story about Honus, during a game, getting a piece of chew out of his back pocket and taking a bite right when the guy hit the ball at him. He caught it with one hand.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

There's a discipline. When you...

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 54 quotes

There was an element of time w...

There was an element of time when Stanley was filming something it would take hours and days to accomplish something, so if he was focusing his attention on Adam Baldwin, or Vincent D'Onofrio, or Lee Ermey, that meant he wasn't focusing that attention on me.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

The fact that I happen to be a...

The fact that I happen to be a celebrity who takes pictures is inconsequential to me.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

The experience of using a Roll...

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

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

Stanley didn't shy away from t...

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

So the thing that's beautiful ...

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 54 quotes

Photography is about light and...

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

My interest in photography rea...

My interest in photography really began with the tremendous generosity of my friend Joe Kelly giving me the Rolleiflex to take with me on my trip to London to work with Stanley Kubrick.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

My father taught me to paint w...

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 54 quotes

My diary is a kind of heart-of...

My diary is a kind of heart-of-darkness story, both (his character) Private Joker's story and my story - of a young man leaving his home and his country and going to meet this very unexpected experience.

Matthew Modine 54 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....