Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.
I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.
The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.
With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.
The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.
The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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.
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.
They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.
Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.
I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
