Cameraman Quotes

• A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Why

• I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.

  

  David Douglas
  • Up
  • Work
  • Function

• I don't think a camera and a cameraman can destroy a family.

  

  Brooke Hogan
  • Family
  • Camera
  • Cameraman

• Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Justice
  • Eye
  • Impossible

• There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you hoist up your camera by the time you've dialed in your settings. There are eye blink moments where you're like "Aaahhhh, I wish," but those are too many to catalogue. Nothing really sticks out.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Wish
  • Moments
  • Eye

• Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

  

  James Wong Howe
  • Director
  • Cameraman
  • Be Honest

• My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Shadow

• On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Calm

• Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday’s news.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Stories
  • Smart phone
  • Reuter photos

• I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.

  

  Michael Bond
  • People
  • Film
  • Decided

• As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

  

  Michael Bond
  • Believe
  • Performing
  • Rudolph

• As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

  

  Stephen Frears
  • Actors
  • Protect
  • Directors

• I certainly wasn’t Roger Deakins, but I felt like I could be.

  

  Elle Schneider
  • Self-confidence
  • Cameraman

• The cameraman isn't thinking about whether you're good that day. He's too busy worrying about what he has to do.

  

  Meredith Salenger
  • Thinking
  • Worrying
  • Cameraman