Cameras Quotes

Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.

It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.

Having a camera is a really easy and quick way to indulge in your creative side.

If Im healthy, that comes across on camera.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.

There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.

I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

I'm camera shy. I don't necessarily like being front and center. I'd rather not have my face all up in everything. I'm not trying to be some mysterious producer or anything like that.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

Cameras intrigued me.

I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.