Cameras Quotes

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.

The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.

We're not cameras, we're artists.

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

The best camera is the one you have with you.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

Sometimes music helps. If I feel that it's bogus, I'll literally just call myself out on camera and say that it's dishonest. You do whatever it takes.

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.