Quotes About Camera Shots

#1. Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.

Gina Bellman

#2. The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

Anais Nin

#3. I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.

Derek Blasberg

#4. I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots with extras, I have to say. I don't mind extras in other scenes, but I love New York City streets just as they look. I don't even care if someone looks at the camera. It doesn't bother me.

Greta Gerwig

#5. I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be ... I want this look.

Debbie Allen

#6. If a bout of "creepy face" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary. This also limits how much of your soul the camera can steal.

Tina Fey

#7. 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

#8. The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.

Jim Lampley

#9. If they [Playboy] could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.

Melissa Joan Hart

#10. Assuredly, I will set you free and care for you. Assuredly, I will intercede for you. Jeremiah 15:11

Beth Moore

#11. That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.

Paul Feig

#12. I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

Eve Best

#13. 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

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

Christopher Nolan

#15. Remember the day doesn't start at sunrise. Twilight starts about half an hour or so before sunrise and while it still looks dark the camera will pick up lots of light. If you get there really early you will have the opportunity to make some night shots too!

Anne McKinnell

#16. Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

Phillip Noyce

#18. I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

Felicity Jones

#19. Punk is not just the sound, the music, punk is a lifestyle.

Green Day

#20. Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

Anthony Liccione

#21. The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.

Julie Delpy