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[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)
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.
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.
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.
Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.
Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.
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.
I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.
Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.
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.
I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
It's great to have a good relationship with the directors and learn about things you do with cameras, and how you direct.
Because the cameras now are all HD they see everything! They see all the imperfections, so your makeup has to be perfect.
Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.
I had a dark room in my bedroom. I was always taking apart cameras and putting them back together. I still am a tinkerer.
More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.
I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.
With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
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.
I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.
There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.
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 at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
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.
Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.
But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.
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 was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried.
Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my 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.
Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.