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18 quotes by Matthew Modine

Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American film actor. His best-known film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, and oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds.
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Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

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For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very... →

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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... →

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I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

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

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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... →

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Everything is so convenient in New York.

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I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

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I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

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I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

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

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

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

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