Ryan McGinley Quotes - Page 2

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• I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

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  Nice, Thinking, Interesting

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• I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

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  Goal, Reaching, Mass

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• I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.

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  Animal, Years, Two

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• Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.

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  Growing Up, Years, People

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• I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

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  Photography, Independent, Mind

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• Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

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  Brother, Hero, Way

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• All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

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  Brother, Adventure, People

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• What I really believe is that there are no coincidences anymore.

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  Believe, Coincidence

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• I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

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  People, Want, Photographer

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• You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.

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  People, Needs

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• Whatever emotions you're going through, you somehow seek out the people that are going through similar emotions or that maybe have something you need.

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  People, Needs, Emotion

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• The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

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  Cameras, Faces, Photographer

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• A camera gives you a purpose.

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  Giving, Cameras, Purpose

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• The camera gives you some control.

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  Giving, Cameras

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• The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

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  New York, Moving, New Family

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• I couldn't wait to come to New York to reinvent myself.

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  New York, Waiting

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• I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.

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  Catholic, Lines, Jersey

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• There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."

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  Dad, Airplane, Luxury

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• My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys that came back. And when he came back from that he had seven kids in seven years.

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  Dad, War, Kids

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• Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

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  New York, Cameras

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• When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet.

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  New York, Closets, Stills

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• I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.

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  Brother, Growing Up, Kids

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• The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

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  New York, People, Admire

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• I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

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  Letting Go, Thinking, Want

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• I was studying graphic design at the time, when negative scanners and all that stuff was coming out, and you could do it all in your apartment. So I would shoot, make contact sheets, scan all the cool negatives, and make all these zines and books of my photos to give to my friends. I was really into zine- and bookmaking from skate culture.

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  Book, Zines, Giving

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