Cameras Quotes

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

What I wasn't used to was being in front of the camera.

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his.

I don’t think I’ve said this on camera, (but Ricky Williams) is the largest part of why I chose to come play for UT

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

Being on set with my daughter watching her in front of the camera was a fantastic experience. I am so proud of her.

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t want to get near the camera.

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?"

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try to see the person in between the cameras, and a sane person would go, "I can't do this."

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera.

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.

For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.