The Camera Quotes
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The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.
— Carrie Mae Weems
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.
— James Agee
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
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 telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.
— Suraj Sharma
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
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
It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
— Edward Weston
Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.
— Alexander Rodchenko
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
Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
— Richard LaGravenese
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 know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
— Joel Gretsch
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'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 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 like to know where the camera is.
— Jeff Bridges
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
As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
— Yael Grobglas
A turtle swims in the background while this shark's face is distorted by the diver's camera lens.
— James Mayrose
I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
— Bob Schieffer
He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his.
— Cassandra Clare
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
— Cindy Margolis
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
— Takeshi Kitano
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.
— Robert Wagner
I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.
— Peter Beard
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
— Taylor Hackford
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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
— Edwin Land
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
— Alvin Langdon Coburn
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
Enabling camera and disk access in the manifest
— Joseph Howse
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
— Julius Shulman
Writing is like a camera. You see the world from a different lens.
— Robert Ahaness
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
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
— David Hockney
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
![The Camera Quotes By Joel Meyerowitz: [The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-camera-quotes-by-joel-meyerowitz-170736.jpg "The Camera Quotes By Joel Meyerowitz: [The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness")
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.
— Joel Meyerowitz
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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
I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.
— Dino De Laurentiis
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.
— Clint Eastwood
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
— Ralph Steiner
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
— Trent Parke
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
— Steve McCurry
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
Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force.
— J.G. Ballard
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
— Leslie Caron
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
Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing.
— Marcel Hirscher
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
— Harry Callahan
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
— Christopher Nolan
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
— Denzel Washington
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
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
'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.
— Jolene Purdy
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ...
— Freeman Patterson
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
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
Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
— Rebecca McNutt
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
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He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples ... And I've never seen him so happy.
— Billy Boyd
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
The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.
— Norman Parkinson
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
Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.
— Michael Spiller
The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera
— Lenny Henry
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.
— James Stewart
Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
— Robert Smithson
