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There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.
I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
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.
It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.
I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.
I'm bad in front of the camera. However, if someone gave me a small role in a film with two dialogues and one scene, I'd do it.
I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.
I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.
The camera is no one's friend - you have to leave your problems at home and make people laugh. That's never an easy thing to do.
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
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.
I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
I don't even consider directing Burt. I just say, 'Hey, Burt, the camera's here. Read the joke and let's get onto the next shot.'
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.
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
I would literally sit at home and have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my mom gave me for Christmas.
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.
Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
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.
There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.
I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me.
I love the people at my job. I love my boss. I love my camera men, I love my crew - because they all surrounded me with straight love.
As an actor, you've to be honest while giving any shot, the camera is same in any medium, the sound system, too. So, it doesn't matter.
I work very hard on my body, and I'm not just known for my six-pack or my body. I also believe that I have pretty good camera presence.
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.