Shooting Quotes

We are not shooting enough professors.

Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?' 'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.' He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

I'm like a shooting star! I've come so far! I can't go back to where I used to be!

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

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.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.

I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.

I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

See, I don't want brothers shooting. I want them talking.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.

Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.

If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.

Murders came with smiles, shooting people was no big deal for us Goodfellas.

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.

When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.