Camera Quotes

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Susan Sontag)
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. View quote
Norman Mailer
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. View quote
Tom Stoppard
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do? View quote
Harry Dean Stanton
The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell. View quote
Edvard Munch
I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera. View quote
Brendan Fraser
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. View quote
Yousuf Karsh
I am full of doubts ... Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay. View quote
Juliette Binoche
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time. (V. S. Pritchett)
The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second. View quote
Brian De Palma
A camera teaches you how to see without a camera. View quote
Dorothea Lange
The camera photographs what's there. View quote
Jack Nicholson
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. View quote
James Cameron (director)
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. View quote
Steven Spielberg
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. View quote
Manuel Puig
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor. View quote
Richard Donner
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told. View quote
Brian Selznick
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at! View quote
Isabelle Huppert
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. (Annie Leibovitz)
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. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. View quote
Dino De Laurentiis
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. View quote
Gavin MacLeod
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. View quote
Herb Ritts