Cameras Quotes - Page 30

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

Craft is important, but cameras for their own sake are not. A sense of aesthetics, a connection with the subject matter, an enquiring and an inquisitive mind, these factors outweigh whatever equipment we use.

I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story.

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

I'm gay. It feels so weird saying it on camera!

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

It's so hard, because everyone's got a camera-phone, and everyone wants to get their picture on the blogs. So they'll send anything that they have to the blogs. So you don't really get any privacy.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I've done it for so many years, it's still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely vulnerable when you're on camera. You're filmed and you're being observed. It's a bit of a violation each time.

Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.

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.

I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)

The camera looks into your soul.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I never understood snapshots. I was looking at them like, "This is horrible; that's not what a picture is supposed to look like." I was taught by these photos. So when I picked up the camera, though I had never done it before, I kind of already knew what I was doing.

I like to know where the camera is.

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

It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

I've always been taught to completely ignore the camera.