Focus On Camera Quotes

#1. Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.

Gillian Anderson

#3. I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.

Ben Kingsley

#4. Own less stuff. Enjoy more freedom. It really is that simple.

Joshua Becker

#5. 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

#6. All you did was make my life hell, and the lives of others. Do you think any of this matters? In ten years, where will you be? Still judging people on the very little you know about them?

Missy Johnson

#7. If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over

Gordon Attard

#8. If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Spike Jonze

#9. She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Deborah Harkness

#10. To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Theodore Dalrymple

#11. An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.

Jennifer Donnelly

#12. The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

Don Chadwick

#13. It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#14. 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

#15. From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.

Francis George

#16. The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

Jonas Mekas

#17. Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

Ren Ng

#18. We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones ... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

Diane Paulus

#19. That's the way cats are. They are never in a hurry to do anything for you, but they expect you to be in a hurry for them.

Bill Myers

#20. Are you really here?" I asked.

"Put down the camera."

"Are you really here?"

"Trust the focus and put down the camera.

Megan Erickson

#21. I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

Angelina Jolie

#22. I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.

Tyra Banks

#23. Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.

Ren Ng

#24. I just think that once you begin to see things the way the camera says is the average way, the way most people want to see them, it can be hard to remember to go back and find your own focus, your own point of view -Scott

Michele Jaffe

#25. By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point.

Isolde Standish

#26. She doesn't like to talk about him, and I know that she hasn't been the same since he died. She's not quite here anymore; there's something missing in all of her smiles, like a blurry spot or a camera lens out of focus. Part of her followed him, wherever it was he went.

Kendare Blake

#27. I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

Mickey Rourke

#28. I'm not a big scatology fan, unlike my sons, who can amuse themselves for an entire afternoon by repeating the phrase 'crocodile fart.' So I'll spare you from an overabundance of detail in this chapter. This chapter will be somewhat soft focus, like the TV camera in a Barbra Streisand interview.

A. J. Jacobs

#29. Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

Simon Sinek

#30. Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#31. Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera ... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

David Halberstam

#32. It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other.

Lois Lowry

#33. Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-"
"Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?"
"You," he said. "And me.

Laini Taylor

#34. Do something that scares you everyday.

Melina Marchetta

#35. You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.

Joseph Heller

#36. And every camera in the room turned to focus on my horror-stricken, blood-drained face.

Meg Cabot

#37. I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

Ranbir Kapoor