Cameras Quotes - Page 20

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

I believe in preparation. As you already know we had to deal with many crews, 2 cameras. Also as I said we had to get many different actors because they tried to tamper with the project. I just liked doing the movie how I envisioned it. I wanted it to be my own.

I'm a big believer in just using CGI to polish what you get on camera.

I moved to L.A. because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do.

What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.

I'm doing an over-the-shoulder shot on a dog. I'm putting the camera behind the dog's shoulder. This is craziness. You just accept it in the movie [Valley of Violence], but when you make the movie, it's the weirdest thing. There's dog coverage, like it's a person.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

When it comes to my skin, I take it seriously. Being on camera and doing what I do, it's very important to start with a good base. So finding products that work really well with your skin are important.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.

Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights and you're framing and you're moving around. The hardest thing to learn as a director is how cameras have to move. You have to have patience, you have to learn how to look through the lens and then you have to learn to combine all of the compartments into one great image.

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.

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.