37 Quotes by Matthew Modine

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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