Cameras Quotes
I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.
I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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.
The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.
The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.
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.
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.
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.
I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still.
Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.
There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect people the way they affect me. I don't even need to be in them.
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.
Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.
Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."
If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.
It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.
When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.
So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.
Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.