Camera Quotes - page 4

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark. (Jessica Lange)
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it. View quote
Alice Sebold
I treat the camera like a person-I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them. View quote
Cara Delevingne
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. View quote
Alton Brown
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience. View quote
Alan Rickman
During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable. View quote
Lev Manovich
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. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear. View quote
Rod Steiger
I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?' View quote
Rod Steiger
I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera. View quote
Celine Dion
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. (Philippe Halsman)
The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement. View quote
Atom Egoyan
You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on! View quote
Peter Falk
If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. View quote
Brad Dourif
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony. View quote
Katherine Dunham
If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. View quote
Neil LaBute
When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right. View quote
Ian McDiarmid
There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out. View quote
Rooney Mara
Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack. (Natsuki Takaya)
My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera. View quote
Franka Potente
If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera. View quote
Matt Smith
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. View quote
W. Eugene Smith
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. View quote
Fay Wray