Camera Is Quotes

#1. I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they're miserable with themselves or if they're the jolly best friend. Well, I'm neither of those things.

Julie Murphy

#2. A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.

Donna Mills

#3. Not knowing the camera is there, the ability to be unwatched, is the key skill of the film actor.

Peter Skagen

#4. My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.

Arthur Tress

#5. The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

Arnold Newman

#6. The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're going to say something, even if we have nothing to say.

Thad Cochran

#7. I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

Mark Duplass

#8. I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

Terence Stamp

#9. Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it.

Warren Spector

#10. For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#11. The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.

Nan Goldin

#12. For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.

Anja Niedringhaus

#13. The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.

Chuck Close

#14. The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

Minor White

#15. I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

David Hockney

#16. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

#17. A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

#18. The camera is an extension of yourself ... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

Cornell Capa

#19. The camera is a kind of license.

Diane Arbus

#20. The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.

Edward Lucie-Smith

#21. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

#22. I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

Gary Cole

#23. When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.

Ren Ng

#24. With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#25. Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

Josh Hutcherson

#26. Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth.

Shirley Manson

#27. When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

Rodrigo Santoro

#28. You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture.

Gabriel Orozco

#29. I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.

Joyce Tenneson

#30. The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

Lance Ito

#31. The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.

Gary Ross

#32. The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

Matthew Modine

#33. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

Orson Welles

#34. 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

#35. I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

Andy Warhol

#36. I want to continue working in Mexico, but I'd also like to work in other countries eventually, too. Working behind the camera is interesting for me, too.

Stephanie Sigman

#37. On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#38. What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?

Dave Eggers

#39. The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

Denis Leary

#40. To see yourself on camera is not a natural thing, a thing no normal person is comfortable with; for it shows us as others see us, not as who we believe we really are.

Marcus Sedgwick

#41. The best camera is the one you have with you.

Jay Maisel

#42. My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

Jerry Uelsmann

#43. For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool.

Anders Petersen

#44. The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Brooks Atkinson

#45. The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Susan Meiselas

#46. Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door.

Michael Glawogger

#47. The key to a frittata," Mike told the camera, "is to use a really hot pan. Because that, my friends, is what makes it" - he paused dramatically - "fluffy.

Diana Peterfreund

#48. It's also important to remember that no one is "the bad guy" or "the best friend" or "the whore with a heart of gold" in real life; in real life we each of us regard ourselves as the main character, the protagonist, the big cheese; the camera is on us, baby.

Stephen King

#49. When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

Nicolas Cage

#50. The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Andre Kertesz

#51. I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

Lars Von Trier

#52. The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

Demetri Martin

#53. [The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.

Edwin Land

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

Tom Stoppard

#55. I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.

Don McCullin

#56. I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there's a lot of truth in what they're showing.

Paul Haggis

#57. Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

George Blagden

#58. Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

David Hurn

#59. Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character. It can really move and tell a story, and literally direct you to look here or there.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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

Chase Jarvis

#61. The dynamic range of the digital camera is pretty crappy compared to film, but now film is not great because the labs have closed. It's going to hurt a lot of the movies that we did in this gap because I think they are going to look very old very soon.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#62. To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

Lou Reed

#63. In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

Ansel Adams

#64. The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence ... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#65. The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

Margaret Bourke-White

#66. Like a car, a camera is sold as a predatory weapon - one that's as automated as possible, ready to spring. Popular taste expects an easy, an invisible technology.

Susan Sontag

#67. Having a camera is a really easy and quick way to indulge in your creative side.

Erin Davie

#68. I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

Jean Renoir

#69. I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.

Rowan Atkinson

#70. A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.

Lucio Tan

#71. 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

#72. I feel exposed. The camera is my nemesis. Right up there with mirrors.

Donna Cooner

#73. I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

Roger Deakins

#74. 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

#75. Writing, directing ... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

Dylan Penn

#76. I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

Peter Beard

#77. The actors feel very free. The actor, he doesn't need to think about where the camera is, he just has to focus on what he's doing and forget the camera. The camera is never in the perfect position, and I think this is what keeps this feeling of reality. The frame is not perfect.

Fernando Meirelles

#78. A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

Christopher Nolan

#79. The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

Elia Kazan

#80. If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.

Whitney Otto

#81. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

Lee Friedlander

#82. The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very, very fast, about 10 times faster than the human visual system.

Michael Dickinson

#83. If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

Vincent Cassel

#84. The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

Jerry Uelsmann

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

Ben Kingsley

#86. My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

Jamel Shabazz

#87. I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.

Emilia Clarke

#88. I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.

Halle Berry

#89. The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

Ansel Adams

#90. There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#91. Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident in as 'Johnny' was on the stage. It's great being part of the creative process. You're right at the start of an idea, and you get to see it all the way through till the end.

Johnny Vegas

#92. Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

Lisette Model

#93. The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial ... The camera ... is so utterly unmechanical.

George Bernard Shaw

#94. A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot, you can see when the camera is on you. It's best to stay 'in it' all the time, and just if it's on you, it's on you, and if it's not, it's not. It's the easiest way.

Aidan Turner

#95. In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#96. The camera is the least important element in photography.

Julius Shulman

#97. Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

Douglas Sirk

#98. A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

Robert Smithson

#99. The camera is the slave to the actor.

John Cassavetes

#100. The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

Janet Malcolm