Cameras Quotes

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.

In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.

I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.

The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasnt that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.

The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're going to say something, even if we have nothing to say.

A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.

There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera.

I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

Dangle something in front of the camera. Get something surprising to be released.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.

He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.

He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.

I always carry my camera with me.

I am not a model the camera just went off by itself

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.