Camera Quotes

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.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show... I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.

I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

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.

No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

I have a wild game camera.