100+ Cameras Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "The Things We Carry: Crossing Borders with “A Time For Drunken Horses” director Bahman Gh". Interview with Erin Torneo, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2000.

topic: Cameras, Littles, Film

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

- Beau Bridges

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Kids, Men, Cameras, Documentary Films

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

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Acting, And Love, Cameras

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

topic: Acting, Cameras, Doe

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

source: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Moon, Cameras

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

- Berenice Abbott

topic: Cameras, Photographer, Preservation

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

- Berenice Abbott

source: "New Guide to Better Photography".

topic: Eye, Cameras, Relentless

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

topic: Talking, Cameras, Way

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

topic: Cameras, World, May

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Reality, Cameras, Return

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

source: "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Cameras

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

topic: Eye, Two, Cameras

The camera is as subjective as we are.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Cameras

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

source: Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

topic: Beauty, Eye, Cameras

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

topic: Cameras, Stories, Want

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

topic: Jobs, People, Cameras

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

topic: Fall, Mean, Cameras

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

topic: Stars, Guy, Cameras

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

source: "The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s". Book by Axel Madsen, 1975.

topic: Writing, Cameras, Twenties, Good Actors

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

- Bob Dylan

topic: People, Cameras, Way, Wrong Way

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

- Brandon Stanton

source: "Humans of New York". Interview with Brian Morris, glasschord.com.

topic: Photography, Cameras, Add, Inspirational Photography, Camera And Photography

After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

- Brassai

source: Brassaï (1968). “Brassaï”

topic: Years, Cameras, Twenties

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

- Breaux Greer

topic: Home, Cameras

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

- Brendan Dooling

topic: Cameras, Energy, Eleven

Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.

- Brendan Fehr

topic: Character, Cameras, Rolling

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

topic: Character, Cameras, Pieces, Bits And Pieces

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

- Brendan Fraser

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Cameras, Want

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

- Brett Ratner

topic: Eight, Years, Cameras

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

- Brett Weston

topic: Art, Cameras, Tools

The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.

- Brian De Palma

topic: Lying, Cameras

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

- Brian Selznick

topic: Thinking, Age, Cameras

Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

- Brian Selznick

topic: Eye, Cameras, Looks

Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

- Brian Williams

topic: Ipads, Cameras, Example, Cafeteria, Trays

Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: People, Cameras, Way

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

- Brigitte Bardot

topic: Cameras, Growing, Good Marriage

In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

- Bruce Dern

topic: Eye, Acting, Cameras, Hitchcock

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.

- Bruce Willis

topic: Couple, Cameras, Directors, Prerogative, Edited

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

- Bryan Adams

topic: Thinking, Cameras, Behinds

She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. It was impossible to take a bad photo of her. Bettie Page was always ready for the camera's eye.

- Bunny Yeager

topic: Eye, Perfect, Cameras, Facial Features

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

- Campbell Scott

topic: Editing, Cameras, Rolling

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

- Canning Fok

source: "'3' the magic number for Hutch Telecom", cnn.com. August 23, 2002.

topic: Technology, Phones, Cameras, Video Cameras

I treat the camera like a personâ€”I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

- Cara Delevingne

topic: Cameras, Needs, Treats

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

- Carlos Fuentes

topic: Creative, Cameras, Fantastic

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

- Carrie Mae Weems

topic: People, Cameras, Looks

My mind is in so many different places while we're shooting. Part of it is watching the performance, part of it is watching the camera, and part of it is thinking about the stuff that we have to get that day. It's always a pleasure watching, but you also take it for granted, when you're on the actual grind, making the show.

- Cary Fukunaga

source: "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

topic: Thinking, Mind, Cameras

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

- Celine Dion

topic: Cameras, Likes

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

- Cesar Romero

topic: Lying, Cameras, Never Lie

I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I do want to direct at some point and start failing really early - start shooting videos and then commercials and then hopefully do some narrative.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Get Better, Cameras, Video

With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Knowing, Dancing, Cameras, Spatial

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Cameras, Lines, Sometimes, Trapped

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

- Charles Grodin

topic: Thinking, Acting, Cameras, Good Acting

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

- Charlie Hunnam

topic: Smile, Nice, Cameras, Dressed Up, Nice Smile

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

- Chase Jarvis

topic: Cameras

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

- Chow Yun-Fat

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cameras, Alive

I had gotten rid of the crying when I got to high school, though it happened again when I was a junior. We lost in the state championship. It was kind of the same situation, camera in my face, and then that's when I realized it was over I had my moment.

- Chris Bosh

topic: School, Cameras, Juniors

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

- Chris Colfer

topic: Writing, Long, Cameras

I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

- Chris Lilley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Cameras, Fans, Jersey Shore, Playing Up

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

- Christa B. Allen

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Childhood, Waiting, Cameras, Take Me Back

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

- Christine Baranski

topic: Cameras, Faces, Made, Audrey

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

- Christine Lahti

topic: Love, Age, Cameras

I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.

- Christine Lakin

topic: Kissing, Parent, Cameras

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

- Christine Quinn

source: "Leave a Place Setting for Ann". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2013.

topic: People, Cameras, Ease, Press Conferences

When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.

- Christophe Agou

topic: People, Cameras, Use

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

- Christopher Doyle

source: "Christopher Doyle Calls 'Life Of Pi' A 'Fucking Insult To Cinematography,' Hates On 'Lincoln' & More". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2013.

topic: Hands, Cameras

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.

- Christopher Doyle

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Cameras, Actors

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

- Christopher Isherwood

topic: Cameras, Someday, Fixed

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

- Christopher Isherwood

topic: Thinking, Cameras, Passive

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