Camera Quotes - page 3

He stuck a camera down my throat.... ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though..... he said I have "Acute Laryngitis." (Avril Lavigne)
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. View quote
Jeff Bezos
The camera is as subjective as we are. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion and the other inner forces.... the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. View quote
Jackson Pollock
Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Kodachrome, They give us those nice bright colours, Give us the greens of summers, Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh, yeah, I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph, So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away. View quote
Paul Simon
I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else. View quote
Joan Crawford
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it. View quote
Denzel Washington
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it! View quote
Werner Herzog
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator. View quote
Roman Vishniac
If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life. (Nicole Krauss)
When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68) View quote
Brené Brown
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts. View quote
Billy Wilder
[I think] the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away. View quote
Sarah Dessen
In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst. View quote
Peter Greenaway
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company. View quote
Robert Wagner
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. View quote
Sofia Coppola
I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. (Irving Penn)
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe. View quote
Irving Penn
I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests. View quote
Brendan Fraser
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. View quote
Al Green
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. View quote
Desi Arnaz