Cameras famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.
-- Aaliyah -
I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.
-- Adam Yauch -
I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores
-- Adriana Trigiani -
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
-- Agnes Varda -
The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.
-- Ajay Naidu -
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie,
-- Al Pacino -
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.
-- Alan Parsons -
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
-- Alan Rickman -
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
-- Albert Brooks -
You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
-- Albert Brooks -
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
-- Alberto Korda -
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
-- Alex Cox -
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
-- Alex Winter -
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.
-- Alexey Brodovitch -
As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon -
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.
-- Alfred Molina -
I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.
-- Alfred Molina -
I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.
-- Alice Englert -
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.
-- Alice Sebold -
With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
-- Alison Sweeney -
There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
-- Allan Dwan -
My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.
-- Alvin Langdon Coburn -
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
-- Alvin Langdon Coburn -
I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.
-- Amanda Plummer -
I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.
-- Amy Adams -
I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.
-- Amy Schumer -
I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.
-- Analeigh Tipton -
I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.
-- Anderson Cooper -
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
-- Andre Kertesz -
My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.
-- Andre Kertesz -
Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because youre not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there.
-- Andrea Anders -
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me,
-- Andrea Arnold -
Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.
-- Andreas Feininger -
(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.
-- Andreas Feininger -
I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.
-- Andy Cohen -
If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
-- Andy Griffith -
I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.
-- Angelina Jolie -
One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.
-- Angie Everhart -
It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.
-- Ann Dowd -
To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'
-- Anna Kendrick -
In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.
-- Anne Robinson -
You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.
-- Anne, Princess Royal -
I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it
-- Annette Bening -
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
-- Ansel Adams -
You don't make a photograph just with a camera
-- Ansel Adams -
People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.
-- Antoine Fuqua -
I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.
-- Anushka Sharma -
I'm telling you, if you want to have good advice, never pay any attention to the camera guys because they will tell you over and over something is wrong and let's reshoot it, let's do this and let's do that. Hey, just do it.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.
-- Aron Ralston -
I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.
-- Atom Egoyan -
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.
-- Audrey Meadows -
I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.
-- Audrina Patridge -
I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.
-- Ava DuVernay -
He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".
-- Avril Lavigne -
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
-- Bahman Ghobadi -
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
-- Beau Bridges -
I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
-- Ben Kingsley -
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
-- Ben Kingsley -
If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.
-- Benjamin Walker -
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
-- Berenice Abbott -
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
-- Berenice Abbott -
None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.
-- Berenice Abbott -
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
-- Berenice Abbott -
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.
-- Bill Brandt -
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.
-- Bill Frakes -
The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.
-- Bill Nighy -
If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
-- Billy Boyd -
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
-- Billy Wilder -
It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.
-- Bob Dylan -
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.
-- Brandon Stanton -
After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.
-- Brassai -
When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.
-- Breaux Greer -
I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.
-- Brendan Dooling -
Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.
-- Brendan Fehr -
I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
-- Brendan Fraser -
I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.
-- Brendan Fraser
