Cameras Quotes - Page 8

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle

If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera.

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

The camera is the eye of history.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

I always carry a camera because it is so important to me to take pictures and document all the incredible things and places I have been able to see through this experience.

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.