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I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.
In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.
At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.
I am a little bit of an egomaniac. I like being in front of the camera, so I take advantage of it when I can.
A lot of people don't like to eat on camera, but I eat on camera all the time. I'm standing in for the viewer.
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
I learned how to make an endoscope using a Swiss Army Knife, a cell phone camera, cell phone, and chewing gum.
I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.
I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that.
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.
When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.
After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.
The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.
I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.
I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.
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.
Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.
I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.
The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
I can't stand people who look into the camera and look into the eyes of millions of people and wax political correctness.
I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a very shy girl.
At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.