Cameras Quotes - Page 7

My co-stars call me selfish. They say you are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera. I reply, I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

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.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.

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.

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.

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.

I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged other subjects.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.