Quotes About Shooting

#1. I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the roads for shooting.

Alan Mak

#2. It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

John Waters

#3. I was actually shooting 'Warm Bodies' on the day that '50/50' came out, which I don't recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn't obsess all day and be checking how '50/50' was doing!

Jonathan Levine

#4. Or at least of fending him off for long enough that we can sweep in heroically like the Seventh Cavalry.' Burning tipis and shooting women and children, I thought. And

Ben Aaronovitch

#5. The most delightful thing he's discovered about shooting someone is how ridiculously easy it is. Tying your shoes is harder.

Rick Yancey

#6. There's one key difference between the Olympics and combat, Susan. You might have overlooked it." He paused. "In the Olympics, no one is shooting back at you.

David Baldacci

#7. I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Sojourner Truth

#8. It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also add thrills to a life that otherwise would be as regular as the tide, as routine as day passing into night.

Amy Tan

#9. My God is
the green tide in the spring leaves
the redness of cherries high in the air
the excitement of shooting stars
the song of birds in summer branches
the sunrise on a winter's morning
the name of everything we don't understand ...

William Of Ockham

#10. I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.

Danny DeVito

#11. That's the thing with a shooting star. By the time someone asks if you saw it, it's already gone.

Sherrie Petersen

#12. Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

Sebastian Thrun

#13. Why? Explain or I keep shooting until this fucking thing doesn't float anymore!

Abigail Roux

#14. When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?

Cormac McCarthy

#15. Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

Sam Peckinpah

#16. Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

Michael Steger

#17. Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#18. It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

Will Rogers

#19. The night doesn't say to itself, 'Here comes a shooting star to interrupt my peace!'

Daniel Odier

#20. The uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.

Louisa May Alcott

#21. In the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood - partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching how they bounce off.

Carl Sagan

#22. Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother's back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting at an outline in a scope wasn't any different than taking down a deer, just in a different shape.

Mindy McGinnis

#23. Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

Emir Kusturica

#24. The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.

Mark Helprin

#25. When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

Lizzy Caplan

#26. At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

Dinaw Mengestu

#27. Are you planning on shooting me for wearing your t-shirt?" I cocked my hip, daring him. I couldn't tear my eyes away. This was a very bad idea - I shouldn't have come. I was in deep trouble with the way my body totally disregarded me, snarling for his touch

Jade Hart

#28. I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get them, consistent, obviously, with the resources that you've got and the time you've got available.

Paul Greengrass

#29. It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

Chris Kattan

#30. What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'

Jay Maisel

#31. I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates

Jason Kidd

#32. When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.

David Ayer

#33. I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going to be a problem.

Kevin Wilson

#34. I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#35. The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.

J.K. Rowling

#36. When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.

Haskell Wexler

#37. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)

George Orwell

#38. I had this vision of shooting a great white in the studio with all the edge lights I use for movie posters. I knew that I couldn't bring the great white to the studio, so I had to bring the studio to the great white.

Michael Muller

#39. Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

James McAvoy

#40. When I heard I had gotten 'Downton Abbey,' I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of 'West is West.'

Lesley Nicol

#41. Coming back to Guess is so natural for me; they're my family. I always love being back, and to be able to come home and be in Malibu across the street from my high school shooting this campaign is absolutely amazing and just feels like the right thing.

Gigi Hadid

#42. Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

Robbie Fowler

#43. I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.

Paris Hilton

#44. This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

Denis Leary

#45. Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

Abhinav Bindra

#46. I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.

Damian Lewis

#47. I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

Mingmei Yip

#48. [Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.

John Noble

#49. The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.

Randy Falco

#50. When senior officers start shooting each other, it's time to leave," said Gamache. "I'm sure it's somewhere in the regulations.

Louise Penny

#51. I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

Barkhad Abdi

#52. The winter seemed reluctant to let go its bite. It hung on cold and wet and windy long after its time. And people repeated, It's those damned big guns they're shooting off in France
spoiling the weather in the whole world.

John Steinbeck

#53. I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.

Jason Reitman

#54. I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.

Tony Scott

#55. With most movies I've done before, I've done a lot of preparation. I've known about them long before [shooting], and I've prepped and changed my body and done research, and all the things you could imagine.

Noomi Rapace

#56. It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

Joe Dante

#57. For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.

Peter Lindbergh

#58. One of the huge advantages of shooting in the winter is that locations that wouldn't have been available to us suddenly were, like Yorkville ... It's just specific streets and specific angles. I think that's what's always kind of shocking about some cities: they are really about intersections.

Atom Egoyan

#59. I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.

Sam Watkins

#60. I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance.

Jorgen Leth

#61. O shooting star
that fell into my eyes and through my body-:
not to forget you. To endure.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#62. Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

B.C. Forbes

#63. I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

Jay Ryan

#64. As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#65. Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.

Lenny Abrahamson

#66. I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

Platon

#67. Dex lowered his voice, growling as his fingers moved the puppet's little paws. "Hi, I'm Ash. My hobbies include shooting things, shooting things, and uh, shooting things. Oh and I like fish.

Charlie Cochet

#68. Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#69. After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

Michelle MacLaren

#70. The people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about them. Ask these gun prohibitionists about the Second Amendment and they'll usually mention hunting or sport shooting.

Glenn Beck

#71. The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.

Otto Ohlendorf

#72. For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

Christopher Nolan

#73. I heard what you said. I'm not the silly romantic you think. I don't want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don't want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want ... a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

Shana Abe

#74. It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

Ally Carter

#75. 'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

Luanne Rice

#76. Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

Dev Patel

#77. Perhaps this one summed it up: 'Some say they are trying to stop the shooting, a lot say they are having a party shotting him. most are just watching. That. my friend. is America. Nuff said.

Wafaa Bilal

#78. No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.

Nancy Johnson

#79. Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

Francine Rivers

#80. Bellamy didn't know why the ancient humans even bothered doing drugs. What was the point of shooting junk into your veins when walking through the forest had the same effect?

Kass Morgan

#81. I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

Rupert Lowe

#82. I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

Christopher McQuarrie

#83. Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Ariana Grande

#84. I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that.

Tila Tequila

#85. As anyone who regularly reads newspapers or true-crime books knows, a significant percentage of violent crime, from kidnappings to shooting sprees, is the result of the frustrated sexual impulses and desires of males. By socializing guys like Sasha, Mystery and I were making the world a safer place.

Neil Strauss

#86. Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#87. Each caress leaving my nerve endings feeling as tingly as if they'd just been kissed by a shooting star, landing on my skin and leaving it as glistening as a newly formed galaxy.

Meg Cabot

#88. Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle And she was the moon shining back his light a little He was a shooting star She was softer and more slowly He could not make things possible But, she could make them holy.

Harry Chapin

#89. Our friendship has held up under an incredible weight, the weight of me shooting someone she loved, the weight of so many losses. Other bonds would have broken. For some reason, this one hasn't.

Veronica Roth

#90. My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.

Blair Underwood

#91. Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they're meant to protect?

Louise Penny

#92. To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.

Lasse Hallstrom

#93. I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

Guy Maddin

#94. Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

Quentin Tarantino

#95. When the basic problem is your ignorance, clever strategies for bypassing your ignorance lead to shooting yourself in the foot.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#96. When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.

Drew Goddard

#97. Yeah, I know there's been all this talk this year especially about the 3-point shot and can you win shooting it. There's a lot of different styles that can work. You have to base it on your own personnel.

Steve Kerr

#98. Shooting videos with lots of effects is like shooting a bunch of puzzle pieces.

Hiro Murai

#99. And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Michael Patrick Jann

#100. A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.

Connie Britton