Top 100 Quotes About A Camera
#2. Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman Mailer
#3. When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones back then, we didn't even have cell phones. I loved having a camera in my hand.
Drew Barrymore
#4. I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
Carly Schroeder
#5. I always carry a camera because it is so important to me to take pictures and document all the incredible things and places I have been able to see through this experience.
Karlie Kloss
#6. Just like a picture is worth 1000 words, a camera phone is worth 1000 cell phones!
Philippe Kahn
#7. I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.
Busta Rhymes
#8. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.
Kirsten Dunst
#9. Nowadays everyone has a camera and the Internet means everything is instantly accessible. Unlike some photographers, I don't see this as a problem. If anything interesting happens in the world today, there will be someone around to record it.
Derek Ridgers
#10. I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
Jennifer Garner
#11. I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.
Alice Englert
#12. If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.
Nicole Krauss
#13. I needed to get a grip. Or a camera to memorialize this moment, because I bet I could make a money from a video of him. I could make a fortune ... As long as he didn't open his mouth.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#14. It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.
Leonard Nimoy
#15. ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.
Sebastiao Salgado
#16. 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!
Isabelle Huppert
#17. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
Friedrich Engels
#18. My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.
Derek Ridgers
#19. Which the experimental participant leaned her head on a chin-and-forehead rest and stared at a camera while listening to prerecorded information and answering questions on the recorded beats of a metronome. The beats triggered an infrared flash every second, causing a
Daniel Kahneman
#21. That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
Stephen Rea
#22. Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera ...
Roger Tory Peterson
#23. I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film.
Giuseppe Andrews
#24. The camera cannot leave the man, but the man can leave the camera. It's in the style of documentary where you make an agreement between a camera and a man and say, "I'm going to film you now."
Tobias Lindholm
#25. I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.
Sienna Miller
#26. My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.
Graeme Le Saux
#27. The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
Al Pacino
#28. I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
John Dyer
#29. And my dream for you ... , is that you'll catch a glimpse of what I love so much about fashion: It's boldness and creativity, the confidence that it takes to stand before a camera and let your image be captured, even though you aren't perfect, the peace to be truly okay with how others see you.
Lauren Scruggs
#30. Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.
Christopher Eccleston
#31. To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.
Katie Lowes
#32. I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.
Joan Crawford
#33. When you're an actor, you're so busy: people are always coming up to you and pulling your collar, making sure that things fit, brushing your hair and you're always being yanked up, so finally when you're behind a camera, you're just a slob.
Clint Eastwood
#34. If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.
Ren Ng
#35. The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.
Naomi Campbell
#36. Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
Rick Springfield
#37. Without you at my side, I feel as though my eyes are just a camera, like a closed-circuit camera without film in it, registering what's out there, second by second, letting it all vanish instantly to be replaced by more images, none of them properly appreciated.
Michel Faber
#38. The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.
David LaChapelle
#39. To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could,
John Carter Cash
#40. Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)
George Eastman
#41. The concept of Red was to build a camera with as much capability as possible ... for the professional market. Then we thought we could extend it down a bit to the prosumer level. Apparently, that was a mistake.
James Jannard
#42. There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.
Eric Cantona
#43. When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
Adam Ferrara
#44. Maybe I'll buy a camera and videotape myself 'a la Paranormal Activity style. Then I'll be able to watch myself sleepwalking and getting up to make pancakes and then standing over Midnight dangling a peice of bacon.
Travis Thrasher
#45. I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.
Brendan Dooling
#46. You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
Warwick Davis
#47. She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
Deborah Harkness
#48. His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People - particularly older ones - still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios - though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies.
Arthur C. Clarke
#49. I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
Candy Crowley
#50. If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.
Diane Arbus
#51. You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Ansel Adams
#52. My sympathies go out to the young performers today because they are under a microscope in a way I wasn't. Now everybody's got a camera phone and can record at will or take pictures of you. It's just a different world. I don't know how I would have fared back then.
Ricky Schroder
#53. I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.
Daniel Tosh
#54. No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.
Joey Lauren Adams
#55. If life were a camera, i would be feeling a little out of frame.
Jaeda DeWalt
#56. Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.
Keith Sweat
#57. Photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes?
Larry Towell
#58. 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.
F. Sionil Jose
#59. Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions
Stella Gibbons
#60. Every photograph is a realization of one of the possibilities contained within the program of the camera. The number of such possibilities is large, but it is nevertheless finite. It is the sum of all those photographs that can be taken by a camera.
Douglas Huebler
#61. I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.
Dennis Christopher
#63. Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.
Grimes
#64. You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.
Susan Sontag
#65. 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
#66. I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.
Gordon Parks
#67. When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
Pablo Picasso
#68. An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.
John Michael Higgins
#69. Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
Minor White
#70. What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.
Wolfgang Tillmans
#71. I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.
William Monahan
#72. No combination of Time and Luck could have produced a camera that excellent, not even if the quantity of time had been 1,000,000,000,000 years! How is that for an unsolved mystery?
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
Win Butler
#74. He'd never need a camera to remember this, and damn if he ever wanted anyone but him to see her like she was at this moment.
Kelly Moran
#75. Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way.
Luc Sante
#76. It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.
Ree Drummond
#77. I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
Nigel Barker
#78. The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there's a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
Jerry N. Uelsmann
#79. A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
Christopher Nolan
#80. A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies ... literally ... and develop your own film and make prints.
Leonard Nimoy
#81. I don't like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody's out quiet and you're the only one talking. I'm not a fan of that. I'm fine when I get in front of a camera, I don't care. You'll never see me on stage. Not at all.
Travis Fimmel
#82. So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.
Brian Henson
#83. The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera ... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.
Kevin Spacey
#84. Ford has one last piece of advice for anyone who's reading his or her first commentary for NPR: "Bring a camera so you can take pictures of the studio, since God knows this stuff doesn't happen to you every day." Commentary
Jonathan Kern
#85. Surveillance isn't easy, though. You'll need warm clothes, a camera with telephoto lens, two Thermos flasks (one for tea, t'other for wee) and for God's sake remember your sandwiches.
Alan Partridge
#86. Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'
Kurt Braunohler
#87. 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.
Shakira
#88. Trace is cooking Nonna's lasagna."
"Wow. I must see this."
"He was wearing her little apron and everything."
"Got a camera?
Joss Stirling
#89. I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
Kerry Washington
#90. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. I
Jhumpa Lahiri
#91. With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
Bruce Cameron
#92. If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.
Rhys Ifans
#93. How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)
Jack Kerouac
#94. This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
Agnes Varda
#95. I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.
Michael Sheen
#96. In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.
Saul Rubinek
#97. Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.
Christine Elise
#98. I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
Lily Tomlin
#99. I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
Bill Jay
#100. Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
David Fincher
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