Camera Quotes

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

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.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

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.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.