Cameras Quotes

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

I've always been taught to completely ignore the camera.

It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

I like to know where the camera is.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

I don't really drink before a show. That's my only drinking rule. Especially with today's cell-phone cameras, there's no win to it.

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with her.

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

We grew up with a camera in front of us.

As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'

Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

Yume is a no-nonsense dog. There are many people here, with camcorders running, lights shining and cameras clicking. She is being a guard dog.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around them, and we arrive at much more intimate moments with them.

I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.

I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.

It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.