Camera Quotes

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

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

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

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

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.

The camera can photograph thought.

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

I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it's certainly not easy.

As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.

I like people.

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

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

I love being in front of the camera.

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.

I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.

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

The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.

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.

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

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

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

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

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.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.