I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

I don't know how effective it is or isn't, but there's something weird about putting cameras on human beings, and talking on camera.

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

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 picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

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.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.

I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.

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.

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.

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.

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.

I want to rob a bank so much - and I'm from the Midwest, so we have like one bank, no security cameras, and so I designed this thing.

I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

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.

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

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 like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

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.

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's to hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them.

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.

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.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.

As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by.

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.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.

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