Cameras Quotes

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

I always carry a camera because it is so important to me to take pictures and document all the incredible things and places I have been able to see through this experience.

I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.

I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

You see the world much better through a camera.

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

The camera is the eye of history.

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.

The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool.

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.