Camera Quotes

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

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.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

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.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station.

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.