Cameras Quotes

The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.

I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

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.

My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

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.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

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.

Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

If you think it, the camera will see it.

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous

Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera.

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

I always loved celluloid cameras in the early days that were sturdy and reliable. Even under tropical conditions and downpour of rain, it would still work.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

You know, I've had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn't as evident back then because they didn't have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.

I don't stand behind the camera drooling. Knowing that, the models are more likely to open up and relax.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.

Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.