Camera Quotes

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places. — Jamel Shabazz

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera. — Sasha Grey

I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this — Drake

The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people. — Ivan Sutherland

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want. — Eleanor Mondale

When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant. — Gabrielle Aplin

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it. — Julia Margaret Cameron

The camera is a kind of license. — Diane Arbus

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Having a camera is a really easy and quick way to indulge in your creative side. — Erin Davie

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world. — Patti Smith

I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York. — Jon Bernthal

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people. — Dennis Hopper

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life. — Alexander Rodchenko

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs. — Jon Foreman

I am a little bit of an egomaniac. I like being in front of the camera, so I take advantage of it when I can. — Andre Royo

I do my best to not be on camera. I hate it. — Jeff Tremaine

Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time. — Richard LaGravenese

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. — Matthew Gray Gubler

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. — Peter Gabriel

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set. — Bryan Singer

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it. — Denzel Washington

There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand. — Jamie Dornan

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing. — Christopher Nolan

If I'm healthy, that comes across on camera. — Erin Karpluk

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. — Harry Callahan

Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing. — Marcel Hirscher

Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time. — Pauly Shore

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

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job. — Don McCullin

Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force. — J.G. Ballard

The important thing is not the camera but the eye. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera. — Julian Fellowes

The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes. — China Mieville

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman. — Mitra Farahani

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see. — Trent Parke

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one. — Jay Maisel

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. — Ralph Steiner

If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go. — Chris Rock

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice. — Clint Eastwood

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on. — Dino De Laurentiis

She points at my chest.
"And much more interestingly, what's that?"
"Blood," I say.
She gets her camera out. — David Almond

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet. — Keith Sweat

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible. — Elle Schneider

I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies. — D. A. Pennebaker

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started. — Alyson Hannigan

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about. — David Attenborough

Snake pulled out the digital camera and decided to play a joke on Otacon. He snapped a picture of the pinup, muttered, "Good," and closed the door. — Raymond Benson

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more. — Emily Browning

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! — Ansel Adams

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. — Neil LaBute

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye. — Robert Smithson

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me. — Maurice Levy

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. — James Stewart

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera — Lenny Henry

I feel exposed. The camera is my nemesis. Right up there with mirrors. — Donna Cooner

Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting. — Michael Spiller

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer. — Steve Coleman

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera. — Helmut Newton

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work. — Jolene Purdy

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it. — Andy Griffith

He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples ... And I've never seen him so happy. — Billy Boyd

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well. — Paul Caponigro

I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera. — Crystal Renn

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things. — Harry Lloyd

Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds. — Rebecca McNutt

What are memories but photo images from the mind? Isn't the human mind so much like a camera, saving pictures every now and then? — Priyanka Naik

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot. — Ren Ng

For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool. — Anders Petersen

Dangle something in front of the camera. Get something surprising to be released. — William Wegman

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ... — Freeman Patterson

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

A turtle swims in the background while this shark's face is distorted by the diver's camera lens. — James Mayrose

As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.' — Yael Grobglas

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do. — Kobe Bryant

I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses. — Alison Jackson

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. — Ken Rockwell

I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one. — Jennifer Lawrence

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor. — Tim Daly

If life were a camera, i would be feeling a little out of frame. — Jaeda DeWalt

I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera. — Patrick Schwarzenegger

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers. — Joel Gretsch

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera. — Dziga Vertov

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera. — Kim Weston

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future. — Lady Gaga

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell? — Guillermo Diaz

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me. — Annie Leibovitz

I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once. — Manish Dayal

I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it — Douglas Adams

Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. — Joel Meyerowitz

I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace. — J. B. Smoove

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera — Arno Rafael Minkkinen

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