The Best 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 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

The camera is a kind of license. — Diane Arbus

The best camera is the one you have with you. — Jay Maisel

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

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

The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real. — Rob Letterman

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye. — Douglas Sirk

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

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

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

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture. — Alberto Korda

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked. — Jay Maisel

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

The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera. — Elliott Erwitt

The best gift I've ever gotten ... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome! — Camren Bicondova

I have done my best. I saw a fatal flaw in the camera industry. We did our best to address it. — James Jannard

They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. I — Jhumpa Lahiri

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate. — D. A. Pennebaker

The best tourist is one without a camera — Kamand Kojouri

The best camera, is the one that you have with you! — Chase Jarvis

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

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

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

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'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

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